Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has confirmed that the only An-225, the largest operational cargo aircraft, has been destroyed. Antonov has not confirmed it yet. There’s yet another ...

If you're an aviation fan, you've probably heard of the Antonov An-225 "Mriya." This jet was once the world's largest, powered by its six huge turbofan engines. However, the jet made the news in 2022 ...

An aviation legend and one-off still-functional aircraft has been lost in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict: Mriya, the Antonov AN-225 cargo plane, has been destroyed by the Russian military. The ...

Serhii Bychkov, former Director General of Antonov State Enterprise, has been served with a notice of suspicion of official negligence, due to which the world-famous cargo plane, the AN-225 Mriya was ...

It will forever be known as the AN-225 Mriya, and for more than three decades it has been the world’s largest aircraft in terms of payload. It set some 240 world records, many of them still unbeaten, ...

The only An-225 Mriya was destroyed during the early stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Antonov now wants to restore it but needs funds. As everybody knows by now, the only An-225 Mriya (NATO ...

Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov Company has completed all urgent restoration work on the An-225 Mriya, the world's largest aircraft, and will resume it after the end of hostilities. Source: ...

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The world's largest airplane, the Antonov An225 Mriya, was born in the Soviet Union in 1988. It measured 275 feet long and weighed nearly 420,000 pounds, designed to piggyback the USSR's Buran space ...

The only example of a 600t Antonov An-225 Mriya heavy lifter performed a 30min flight from Gostomel aerodrome near Kiev on 7 May, seven years after it last flew. Ten further flights of the six-engined ...