AN-225 Archives - Airspace Africa https://airspace-africa.com/tag/an-225/ Latest news and insights from the aviation and travel industry in Africa Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:59:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://airspace-africa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-African-Airspace-Logo-Favicon-01-32x32.png AN-225 Archives - Airspace Africa https://airspace-africa.com/tag/an-225/ 32 32 A new Mriya to be Built in a Secret Location, Antonov reveals https://airspace-africa.com/2022/11/09/a-new-mriya-to-be-built-in-a-secret-location-antonov-reveals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-new-mriya-to-be-built-in-a-secret-location-antonov-reveals https://airspace-africa.com/2022/11/09/a-new-mriya-to-be-built-in-a-secret-location-antonov-reveals/#respond Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:59:37 +0000 https://airspace-africa.com/?p=8311 In February, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the only completed An-225 was destroyed during an attack on Gostomel Airport, near the Ukranian capital Kiev. Nine months later, the Ukrainian aircraft maker Antonov revealed on Tuesday that it is building a new An-225 Mriya. Design work to complete the second An-225 “Dream” has already begun. [...]

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]]> https://airspace-africa.com/2022/11/09/a-new-mriya-to-be-built-in-a-secret-location-antonov-reveals/feed/ 0 Ukraine Confirms World’s Largest Aircraft AN-225 ‘Mriya’ Damaged https://airspace-africa.com/2022/02/28/ukraine-confirms-worlds-largest-aircraft-an-225-mriya-damaged/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ukraine-confirms-worlds-largest-aircraft-an-225-mriya-damaged https://airspace-africa.com/2022/02/28/ukraine-confirms-worlds-largest-aircraft-an-225-mriya-damaged/#respond Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:26:41 +0000 https://airspace-africa.com/?p=5527 The official government account of Ukraine has confirmed that the sole An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest operational aircraft, has been destroyed. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also confirmed that as a result of attack and capture of Ukrainian civil Kyiv-Antonov airport (Gostomel, GML) by Russian troops, the largest aircraft in the world AN-225 Mriya was [...]

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