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Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 2006-07, Volga-Dnepr General characteristics Crew: Eight (pilot, copilot, navigator, chief flight engineer, electrical flight engineer, radio operator, two loadmasters) Capacity: 88 passengers in upper aft fuselage, or the hold can take an additional 350 pax on a palletised seating system / 150,000 kg (330,693 lb) Length: 69.1 m (226 ft 8 in) Wingspan ...
The joint operation of the Ukrainian and Russian fleets allows them to share the combined An-124-100 commercial fleet of seventeen aircraft (twelve of which belong to Antonov Airlines). [2] In 2017 Antonov Airlines opened a United Kingdom office at London Stansted Airport , with a first flight in February by an Antonov An-124 Ruslan .
CJSC Aviastar-SP (Russian: «Авиастар-СП») is a Russian aircraft factory based in Ulyanovsk and founded in 1976.It is a closed shares joint stock company.It replaced the Soviet Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex and manufactures the cargo aircraft An-124 Ruslan, Il-76 [1] [2] and the whole Tu-204 family (except Tu-214).
The contract was renewable through 2012 and required Ruslan to maintain two An-124 aircraft in a ready state in Leipzig, Germany, with an additional four An-124 aircraft available if needed. [ 17 ] Antonov Airlines terminated its joint venture with Air Foyle HeavyLift on June 30, 2006, to pursue a joint marketing venture with its competitor ...
Military transport aircraft include load-carrying non-combat types such as ... Antonov An-124 Ruslan: USSR: Jet: Strategic: 1982: 150: 5,410 ... Cargo aircraft ...
The An-124 "Ruslan" (1982) became the Soviet Union's mass-produced strategic airlifter under the leadership of Chief Designer Viktor Tolmachev. [citation needed] The Bureau enlarged the "Ruslan" design even more for the Soviet spaceplane programme logistics, creating the An-225 "Mriya" in 1985. "Mriya" was the world's largest and heaviest ...
In the early 1990s HeavyLift joined with the Russian Volga-Dnepr airlines to become the worldwide general sale agent for its outsized cargo operations with AN-124 aircraft. This was similar to UK rival Air Foyle which was the general sales agent for the Ukrainian AN-124 operator Antonov Airlines. Volga-Denpr terminated the agreement in 2001 ...
Polet was sued by Alexander Lebedev, who claimed that it owned US$8 million in lease payments for An-124 aircraft. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Polet suspended both passenger and cargo operations on 24 November 2014 after which a Moscow Arbitration Court on 28 November placed the carrier into administration. [ 9 ]