The ANTONOV AN-225

These Airplane Model are finely handcrafted, and hand painted by our artists – to scale and museum quality. 17’ inches in length.

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The reduction of the ground structures on Baikonur and the beginning of making heavy launchers have increased the air load transports. The plane VM-T “Atlant” can transport loads of 50 t, but the future projects envisaged to carry loads of 200 t. Antonov studied the way of building a transport plane of greater capacity by making modifications on the An-124 airplane models model, it created the An-225 airplane models. The An-225 Mriya (“Мрiя” means Dream in Ukrainian) has a load capacity of 250 t (initialy 225 t), is 84 m long, 88.4 m of scale and 18.1 m in height. It made its first flight on December 21, 1988 (breaking 106 world records) and transported Bourane (60 t) to Le Bourget (France) in 1989.

It is until now the largest working plane in the world, there is only one specimen of it and it is used by Antonov Airline for exceptional transport mission. Mriya now has the Ukrainian flag painted on its drift and is recorded under the name UR-82060. Moreover, it has undergoes some modifications such as the addition of new safety systems, navigation and communication. According to the manufacturer the fuselage was reinforced to support heavier payloads. Lastly, it was equipped with a new cockpit and a new passengers cabin. Those improvements cost more than 20 million dollars in 2000.

Construction of a second An-225 airplane models had also begun during the 1980s but was stopped in 1994. Despite the numerous rumors about the continuation of the assembly of the second plane this one has never been finished. Even if it is the biggest fret plane in the world the Mriya is not really profitable, it’s used only when the load is too voluminous to be put in a An-124. Nobody asked yet to Antonov Airlines to buy this plane. In fact it’s more economic to use 2 Russlan (An-124) than the Mriya. But the Mriya is a technological showcase for this company and each move of it come with articles in the local press.

The An-225 should have been later used as a launcher for the MAKS shuttle and the english HOTOL shuttle.