{"id":17420338,"date":"2026-08-28T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/?p=17420338"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:27:09","slug":"tupolev-tu-114-fastest-propeller-airliner-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/tupolev-tu-114-fastest-propeller-airliner-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Tupolev Tu-114: The Fastest Propeller Airliner Ever Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>On 9 April 1960, over a 5,000 km closed circuit, a Soviet airliner averaged 877.21 km\/h. That is 545 mph. It was carrying up to 25 tonnes of payload, it had four engines turning eight propellers, and the record it set has never been beaten by any propeller-driven aircraft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Der <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/flugzeug\/tu-95-bear\/\">Tupolev Tu-95<\/a> bomber gave the Soviet Union a strategic aircraft that could outrun most of what was sent to intercept it. The Tu-114 was what happened when Tupolev put a passenger cabin on it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#333\">Kurzinfo<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Typ:<\/strong> Tupolev Tu-114 &ldquo;Rossiya&rdquo; (NATO: Cleat), long-range turboprop airliner<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Erster Flug:<\/strong> 15 November 1957; in Aeroflot service from 24 April 1961<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Motoren:<\/strong> Four Kuznetsov NK-12MV turboprops, 14,795 shp each, each driving contra-rotating four-blade propellers<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Geschwindigkeitsrekord:<\/strong> 877.21 km\/h over 5,000 km, 9 April 1960, pilot Ivan Sukhomlin &mdash; the fastest FAI speed record ever set by a propeller aircraft<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Cruise:<\/strong> About 770 km\/h &mdash; well below the record figure<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Kapazit\u00e4t:<\/strong> Typically 170 on long-haul, up to 220 in later high-density fits<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Gebaut:<\/strong> 32, at Kuibyshev, 1958&ndash;1963<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Withdrawn:<\/strong> Last flight 2 December 1976; carried roughly six million passengers<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A bomber with a new middle<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Tu-114 kept the Tu-95's 35-degree swept wing, its tail, its engines and its main landing gear. What was new was everything in between: a much wider pressurised fuselage, mounted low instead of mid-set, with bigger flaps and a taller nose gear to keep those enormous propellers clear of the ground.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Those propellers are the point. Each NK-12MV drives a pair of contra-rotating four-blade units on a single shaft \u2014 eight blades per engine, thirty-two in total, each set 5.6 m across. It is the arrangement that makes the Tu-95 the loudest aircraft in the sky, and the Tu-114 inherited it along with the speed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1716636024  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:vSxf.cfca\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/tupolev-tu-114-passenger-cabin-interior-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The passenger cabin of a Tupolev Tu-114\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Inside: on its longest routes the Tu-114 carried sleeping berths and a dining lounge, closer to a 1930s flying boat than to a modern jet. Photo: Mike1979 Russia \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Washington, 1959<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Nikita Khrushchev flew to the United States in a Tu-114 that was still, technically, in flight testing. It arrived at Andrews Air Force Base on 15 September 1959 after a non-stop run from Moscow against headwinds reported at around 100 mph.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The Communist leader, his family and official party landed behind schedule at nearby Andrews Air Force Base after their mammoth Russian TU-114 turbo-prop plane battled delaying 100-mph headwinds over the Atlantic on their 5,000-mile non-stop journey from Moscow.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Jack V. Fox<\/strong> &mdash; staff correspondent, United Press International, 15 September 1959<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Andrei Tupolev put his son Alexei aboard as a demonstration of confidence in an aircraft that had not finished its trials. Khrushchev, in his own account, preferred not to advertise the fact.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Then there are the airstairs. The story that no set of steps in America was tall enough to reach the doors is often told and hard to pin down at Andrews specifically \u2014 but the phenomenon is real and was witnessed a month earlier at Le Bourget, where <em>Flug<\/em> reported that conventional airline stairs, fully elevated, \"got nowhere near the passenger doors\" and the crew had to lower a ten-foot ladder. The aircraft simply stood too tall on that stretched nose gear.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/22H8M8h6Hdo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#666;font-style:italic;margin-top:-8px\">Mustard&rsquo;s film on the Tu-114 &mdash; the best single explanation of how a bomber became the fastest airliner of its kind.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Havana, Tokyo, and the limits of range<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Tu-114's job was to reach places the Soviet Union could not otherwise reach. Moscow to Havana began with a technical flight on 10 July 1962, routed via Conakry; American pressure closed Conakry, then Dakar, then Algiers. The eventual answer was the Tu-114D, a 60-seat variant that refuelled at Olenya near Murmansk and went the long way over the Atlantic.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Tokyo service was stranger still. Under a 1966 agreement, Moscow-Tokyo flights began on 17 April 1967 operated jointly with Japan Air Lines: Soviet flight crew plus a JAL crew member, five Aeroflot and five JAL cabin staff, and JAL titles painted on the forward fuselage of an aircraft derived from a nuclear bomber.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1941701971  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:vSxf.cfca\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/tupolev-tu-114-aeroflot-jal-joint-livery-haneda.jpg\" alt=\"A Tu-114 in the joint Aeroflot and Japan Air Lines livery\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The oddest livery of the Cold War: a Tu-114 carrying Japan Air Lines titles for the Moscow&ndash;Tokyo service, flown jointly from 1967 to 1969. Photo: Aviation Photography of Miami \/ Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Fast, and then finished<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Only 32 were built. In fifteen years of service the type had one fatal accident: on 17 February 1966 an aircraft taking off at night from Sheremetyevo struck an uncleared snow bank, veered off and burned. Twenty-one of the 66 people aboard were killed, according to Soviet records; contemporary Western wire reports gave higher figures.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t publicize the fact that Tupolev&rsquo;s son was with us.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Nikita Chruschtschow<\/strong> &mdash; on taking Andrei Tupolev&rsquo;s son on the untested aircraft, quoted in William Taubman, <em>Khrushchev: The Man and His Era<\/em> (2003)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Its career ended not through obsolescence in the usual sense but through metal fatigue: the airframe was cleared for 14,000 hours, and the Il-62 could do the job on jets. A ministry order of 11 May 1976 withdrew the type, and the last flight was on 2 December that year. Most were scrapped within a year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Three survive. The prototype CCCP-L5611 \u2014 Khrushchev's aircraft \u2014 is at Monino outside Moscow; another is at Ulyanovsk; a third stood at Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine, last confirmed by photograph in 2018.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FE8k12c8pnc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#666;font-style:italic;margin-top:-8px\">A closer look at the airframe, the contraprops and the cabin layouts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3eVW5sWPes\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Sixty-six years on, nothing with a propeller has flown faster in a sanctioned record attempt. The turbofan made the question irrelevant before anyone tried very hard to beat it \u2014 which is the neatest possible summary of the Tu-114: a magnificent answer to a question the world had already stopped asking.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: FAI record database (archived); <\/em>Flug<em>, 21 August 1959; UPI Archives, 15 September 1959; Gordon &amp; Rigmant, <\/em>Tupolev Tu-114<em>; Jane&rsquo;s All the World&rsquo;s Aircraft; <\/em>Luftfahrtgeschichte<em> (Guttman, 2019); Aviation Safety Network; Wikipedia cross-checks.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">\u00c4hnliche Beitr\u00e4ge<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/tupolev-tu-95-bear-loudest-bomber\/\">Der Bomber, so laut, dass U-Boote ihn h\u00f6ren k\u00f6nnen<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/absturz-der-tupolev-tu-144-concordski-in-paris-1973\/\">Concordski: Der Tag, an dem das sowjetische \u00dcberschallflugzeug abst\u00fcrzte<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/bristol-britannia-whispering-giant\/\">The Whispering Giant That Missed Its Moment<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1960 a Soviet airliner derived from the Tu-95 bomber averaged 877 km\/h over 5,000 km. 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