![]() The type's maiden flight took place in December 1982 the first exposure of the An-124 to the West occurred during 1985 when it appeared at the Paris Air Show. ![]() Ultimately this project brought together over 100 factories contracted to produce systems and parts. Manufacturing on the first airframe began in 1979. Design work started in 1971 and construction of facilities began in 1973. ![]() Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex) in Ulyanovsk, Russia and by the Kyiv Aviation Plant AVIANT, in Ukraine. The An-124 was manufactured in parallel by two plants: the company Aviastar-SP (ex. In 2019, there were 26 An-124s in commercial service. The original designer of the An-124 is responsible for managing the certification process for its own products, but the Russia-Ukraine conflicts are making this process difficult to manage. The various operators of the An-124 are in discussions with respect to the continuing airworthiness certification of the individual An-124 planes. The sole remaining production facility is Russia's Aviastar-SP in Ulyanovsk. In August 2014, it was reported that plans to resume joint production of the Antonov An-124 had been shelved due to the ongoing political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. In July 2013, 26 An-124s were in commercial service with 10 on order. First flown in 1982, civil certification was issued on 30 December 1992. ĭuring development it was known as Izdeliye 400 ( Product #400) in house, and An-40 in the West. The lead designer of the An-124 (and the An-225) was Viktor Tolmachev. The An-124 remains the largest military transport aircraft in service. The An-124 is the world's 2nd heaviest gross weight production cargo airplane and heaviest operating cargo aircraft, behind the destroyed one-off Antonov An-225 Mriya (a greatly enlarged design based on the An-124) and the Boeing 747-8. The Antonov An-124 Ruslan ( Ukrainian: Ан-124 Руслан Russian: Антонов Ан-124 Руслан, lit.' Ruslan' NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR, then part of the Soviet Union (USSR).
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