List of large aircraft

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A size comparison between four of the largest aircraft. Click to enlarge.

Antonov An-225: The world's largest powered aircraft, seen here carrying the Shuttle Buran

This is a list of notably large aircraft.

[edit] Fixed-wing

Year of first flight in brackets.

• Ross Kruger
• Aero Spacelines Super Guppy
• Airbus A330-300
• Airbus A340-600 - World's longest passenger airliner
• Airbus A380 - World's largest passenger airliner
• Antonov An-22 - World's largest turboprop-powered airplane
• Antonov An-70 -
• Antonov An-124 - World's largest mass produced aircraft
• Antonov An-225 - World's largest and heaviest powered aircraft
• Beriev Be-2500 - Proposed
• Blohm + Voss BV 222
• Blohm + Voss BV 238 (1944)- Heaviest aircraft during World War II, and physically was the largest aircraft produced by any of the Axis powers in World War II
• Boeing XB-15
• Boeing B-29 Superfortress
• Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
• Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
• Boeing E-6 Mercury
• Boeing 314 Clipper
• Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
• Boeing 747
• Boeing 747-8
• Boeing 777
• Boeing Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
• Bristol Brabazon (1949) - airliner design
• Caproni Ca.60
• CANT Z.511
• Convair B-36 Peacemaker
• Convair XC-99 (1947)- developed from B-36, largest piston-engined land-based transport aircraft ever built
• Dornier Do X
• Douglas XB-19
• Douglas C-124
• Douglas C-133 Cargomaster
• Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" - World's largest flying boat, and largest wingspan of any aircraft
• Ilyushin IL-86
• Ilyushin IL-96-300
• Ilyushin IL-96-400
• Ilyushin IL-96-400T
• Junkers G.38 (1931)
• Junkers Ju 390
• Kawanishi E11K1 "Soku"
• Lockheed C-141
• Lockheed C-5 Galaxy - Largest American military transport and one of the largest military aircraft in the world
• Lockheed R6V Constitution
• McDonnell Douglas KC-10
• Martin JRM Mars
• Messerschmitt Me 323 "Gigant" - Biggest land-based cargo airplane during World War II
• Myasishchev VM-T
• Nakajima G10N1 "Fugaku
• North American XB-70
• Northrop B-2
• Northrop YB-35
• Northrop YB-49
• Saunders-Roe Princess (1952)
• Short Sarafand (1932)
• Tupolev ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky" - Largest aircraft during the 1930s
• Tupolev Tu-95 First Largest Turboprob
• Tupolev Tu-95M - Longest serving Bomber
• Tupolev Tu-114
• Tupolev Tu-444 Proposed supersonic Businessjet
• Tupolev Tu-160 - Blackjack is one of the Largest Supersonic Bombers in the world.
• Zeppelin Staaken R.VI

[edit] Helicopter

Mil Mi-26: world's largest helicopter

• Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight
• Boeing CH-47 Chinook
• Hughes H-17 Sky Crane
• Mil Mi-6
• Mil Mi-12 - Largest helicopter built
• Mil Mi-26 - Largest helicopter in the world - in production
• Sikorsky Sikorsky-Ericcson S-64 Skycrane
• Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion
• Westland Westminster (1958)

[edit] Dirigible

The Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

• HM Airship R100
• HM Airship R101
• Goodyear-Zeppelin USS Akron and USS Macon - US Navy airships of the 1930s
• Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg and LZ130 Graf Zeppelin - Largest aircraft ever flown

[edit] Other

• Ekranoplan