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Sunday, September 02, 2007

Russia, Ukraine to Restart Antonov 124 Production


Antonov 124 Takeoff at Zurich Airport

One of the little noted news stories to come out of the MAKS 2007 air show was the announcement by Motor Sich OJSC and Ukraine's Antonov Design Bureau that they would jointly resume production of the Antonov 124 "Ruslan" cargo plane.

It has 25% more cargo capacity than the largest plane in the U.S. Air Force inventory, the C-5 Galaxy. The An-124 and its successor, the An-225, were originally designed in the late 1970s to support Soviet oil and gas development in Siberia.

In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, all new Antonov production came to halt. During the Nineties, when transport aircraft were still in high demand but civil and military aviation in the former USSR was in terrible bad shape, several Antonov jets crashed, killing fifty people.

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