Ivchenko AI-14 explained

The Ivchenko AI-14 is a nine-cylinder, air-cooled, radial piston engine designed in the Soviet Union to power aircraft.

A variant known as the M462 was produced under license by Avia.

Variants

AI-14:

AI-14R:Underwent state trials in December 1950 and was used in many types of light aircraft, typically used with a two-bladed propeller and is started with compressed air. Several thousand were built.

AI-14RA

AI-14V: Variant for helicopters and other applications.

AI-14VF: Variant for helicopters and other applications.

AI-14RF: A variant uprated by Ivan Vedeneyev to 300 hp. Its further development is the Vedeneyev M14P family of engines.

Avia M462: Powers the Zlín Z 37 agricultural aircraft.

Zhuzhou HS-6: The designation for AI-14 Licence production in China.

PZL AI-14R: A licensed version of the AI-14R, produced by WSK-Kalisz in Poland from 1956 until 2007.

Applications

• Aero L-60 Brigadýr (L-60S variant)
• Antonov An-14 - AI-14RF
• ICA IS-23 - AI-14RF
• Kamov Ka-15 - AI-14V
• Kamov Ka-18 - AI-14VF
• Kamov Ka-26
• Nanchang CJ-6
• PZL-101 Gawron
• PZL-104 Wilga
• Sever-2 (aerosled based on GAZ-M20 Pobeda passenger car)
• Yakovlev Yak-12
• Yakovlev Yak-18 (Yak-18A variant)

See also

• List of aircraft engines

References

• Book: Gunston, Bill . World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines . 1986 . Patrick Stephens . Wellingborough . 93.
• Book: Taylor, John W.R. . Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982-83. . 1982 . Jane's Publishing Company Ltd . London . 746.
• Book: Kotelnikov, Vladimir . Russian Piston Aero Engines. 2005 . Crowood Press Ltd.. 201–203.