More An-225s to be built

ANTONOV COMPANY SIGNED COOPERATION AGREEMENT ON THE AN-225 PROGRAMME WITH AICC.

On August 30, 2016, ANTONOV Company included into Ukroboronprom SC and Aerospace Industry Corporation of China (AICC) signed Cooperation agreement on the AN-225 programme. In such way, the parties expressed their intensions as for long-term cooperation. The first stage of this interaction consists in construction of the second modernized AN-225 Mriya at ANTONOV Company and delivery of this aircraft to AICC. The second stage – organization of the joint series production of the AN-225 in China under licence of ANTONOV Company. Both stages will be realized in accordance with proper contracts.

Photo: fuselage of the second АN-225 at ANTONOV Company’s production facility.

#antonov #an225 Антонов and Aerospace Industry Corporation of China today signed an agreement for the production of additional An-225 aircraft. The An-225 is the largest cargo aircraft in the world and there is currently only one operational An-225 in the world. A partially completed An-225 will now be finished before a second phase of new An-225 construction.
Not just the name of the plane in Russian Maria = dream

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It’s the flying whale.

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Interesting, that plane was under construction but it was suspended because the USSR fell.

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Good good very good.

Anyone else see a resemblance between this photo and the incomplete An-225?

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I was going to bash you, but then I looked the picture of the AN-225 and I have to say they look the same.

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Should read the shark ANTONOV

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And you thought the A380 was big!

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Very interesting!

Could you provide a link? I would love to read it.

At least their “Dream” won’t be dead. It shall live on.

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Apparently the new An-225 is to be built with a standard tail.

I wonder if Boeing would respond

Apparently, the An-225 creates take the spacecraft for the Russian space program image

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