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With a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (705 short tons), the An-225 held several records, including heaviest aircraft ever built and largest wingspan of any operational aircraft. It was commonly used to transport objects once thought impossible to move by air, such as 130-ton generators, wind turbine blades, and diesel locomotives .
Type MTOW [kg] MLW [tonnes] TOR [m] LR [m] ICAO category FAA category; Antonov An-225: 640,000: 591.7: 3,500: Super: Super Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch
The US Federal Aviation Administration defines a large aircraft as any aircraft with a certificated maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) of more than 12,500 lb (5,700 kg) [1] The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) defines a large aircraft as either "an aeroplane with a maximum take-off mass of more than 12,566.35 pounds (5,700.00 kilograms) or a ...
Before its destruction, the single Antonov An-225 (MTOW of 640 t (1,410,000 lb)) was classified by the FAA as Super, [4] [5] although it is classified by ICAO as Heavy. The Antonov An-225 and the Antonov An-124 Ruslan are classified by the UK Civil Aviation Authority as Super, [6] although they are classified by ICAO as Heavy.
There are fears that the world’s largest plane by length, the Antonov AN-225, has been damaged amid intense fighting in Ukraine. Only a single aircraft was ever completed, making its first ...
In order to airlift the Buran space shuttle, in 1988 Soviet Union introduced the sole Antonov An-225 Mriya (dream). With a ( maximum takeoff weight greater than 640 tonnes (1,410,000 lb) and a wing span of 88.4 metres (290 ft), it was the largest operational aeroplane in the world.
The Antonov An-225 Mriya (Антонов Ан-225 Мрія, NATO reporting name: Cossack) was a strategic airlift transport aircraft built by Antonov, and was the world's largest powered aircraft before its destruction in February 2022. Mriya (Мрія) means "dream" (inspiration) in Ukrainian.
A Ukrainian artist has paid a remarkable tribute to the famed Antonov An-225, known as the world’s largest aircraft until its destruction by Russian forces near Kyiv earlier this year.Sculptor ...