| Type | State-owned company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace and defense |
| Founded | May 31, 1946 |
| Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Key people | Oleg Antonov, founder |
| Products | Transport aircraft Military aircraft |
| Website | antonov.com |
Antonov, or Antonov Aeronautical Scientist/Technical Complex (Antonov ASTC) (Ukrainian: Авіаційний науково-технічний комплекс імені Антонова, АНТК ім. Антонова), formerly the Antonov Design Bureau, is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company with particular expertise in the field of very large aircraft construction. Antonov ASTC is a state-owned commercial company. Its headquarters are in Kiev.[1]
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The company is named after Oleg Antonov, its founder and head designer of An-2, An-24, An-22 and other planes.
The Antonov company lacks facilities for full construction of some aircraft, a result of Soviet industrial strategy that split military production between different regions of the USSR. This distribution minimized potential war loss risks. As a result, Antonov airplanes are often assembled by the specialist contract manufacturers in Kharkiv (Ukraine), Novosibirsk (Russia), and Tashkent (Uzbekistan).
123 Fields of commercial activity of Antonov ASTC include:
Antonov's airplanes (design office prefix An) range from the rugged An-2 biplane (which itself is comparatively large for a biplane) through the An-28 reconnaissance aircraft to the massive An-124 Ruslan and An-225 Mriya strategic airlifters (the latter being the world's heaviest aircraft with only one currently in service). Whilst less famous, the An-24, An-26, An-30 and An-32 family of twin turboprop, high winged, passenger/cargo/troop transport aircraft are important for domestic/short-haul air services particularly in parts of the world once led by communist governments. The An-72/An-74 series of small jetliners is slowly replacing that fleet, and a larger An-70 freighter is under certification.
The Antonov An-148 is a brand new short-haul airliner of twin-turbofan configuration, which is awaiting Western certification. Over 150 aircraft have been ordered since 2007, all of them by Russian and former East-bloc operators plus Cuba. A stretched version is in development, the An-158 (from 60-70 to 90-100 passengers).
| Aircraft | Name | NATO | Maiden flight | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-40 | Krylaty Tank | 1942 | Winged tank | |
| An-2 | Kukuruznik | Colt | 31 August 1947 | multi-purpose, biplane, single-engine utility transport. |
| An-3 | Colt | 13 May 1980 | turboprop conversion of An-2 | |
| An-4 | Colt | 1950 | float-equipped An-2 | |
| An-6 | Meteo | Colt | weather reconnaissance aircraft based on An-2 | |
| An-8 | Camp | 1955 | medium military transport | |
| An-10 | Ukraine | Cat | March, 1957 | medium turboprop-powered airliner |
| An-11 | Motorised variant of the A-11 glider | |||
| An-12 | Cub | 16 December 1957 | military turboprop-powered transport, developed from An-10 | |
| An-13 | 1962 | Light aircraft developed from the A-13M motor glider | ||
| An-14 | Pchelka | Clod | 1958 | light twin-engine transport |
| An-20 | light turbocharged piston engine aircraft, developed from Cessna 210 | |||
| An-22 | Antei | Cock | February, 1965 | extremely large turboprop transport |
| An-24 | Coke | 20 October 1959 | twin-turboprop airliner | |
| An-26 | Curl | 1969 | twin-turboprop transport, derived from An-24 | |
| An-28 | Cash | September, 1974 | twin-turboprop light transport, developed from An-14 | |
| An-30 | Clank | 1967 | An-24 adapted for aerial photography and mapping | |
| An-32 | Cline | 1976 | twin-turboprop hot-and-high transport, up-engined An-26 airframe | |
| An-38 | Cash | 1994 | twin-turboprop light transport, stretched An-28 | |
| An-51 | Civil piston utility aircraft, | |||
| An-52 | Light twin-piston aircraft, | |||
| An-70 | 16 December 1994 | large military transport, powered by four propfan engines, to replace An-12 | ||
| An-71 | Madcap | 12 July 1985 | naval AWACS development of An-72 | |
| An-72 | Cheburashka | Coaler | 31 August 1977 | STOL transport, utilizing the Coandă effect |
| An-74 | Cheburashka | Coaler | 1983 | civil version of An-72; version with engines below wings is called An-74TK-300[4] |
| An-88 | AWACS project, not completed | |||
| An-91 | Twin-engined cabin monoplane development of Cessna 310 | |||
| An-124 | Ruslan | Condor | 26 December 1982 | strategic airlifter; largest aircraft ever mass produced |
| An-140 | 18 September 1994 | short-range turboprop airliner, to replace An-24 | ||
| An-148 | 17 December 2004 | regional jet for 68-85 passengers | ||
| An-158 | 28 April 2010 | stretched version of An-148 for 99 passengers | ||
| An-174 | enlarged An-74 with engines below wings | |||
| An-180 | cancelled | medium propfan airliner, around 175 passengers | ||
| An-204 | ||||
| An-218 | postponed | propfan- or turbofan-powered widebody airliner | ||
| An-225 | Mriya | Cossack | 21 December 1988 | An-124 derived strategic airlifter; largest aircraft ever built; only one has been put into service |
| OKA-38 | Storch | Copy of Fieseler Fi 156 | ||
| SKV | Basis for An-14 |
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