Antonov Airlines
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| Founded | 1989 | |||
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| Hubs | Gostomel Airport | |||
| Fleet size | 22 | |||
| Parent company | Antonov | |||
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine | |||
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Antonov Airlines is a Ukrainian cargo airline, a division of the Antonov aviation company. It operates international charter services in the world of oversized cargo market. Its main base is Gostomel Airport near Kiev.[1] The company owns an Antonov An-225, the world's largest operational cargo aircraft and the only one completed.
History
The airline was established and started operations in 1989 through a marketing agent agreement with Air Foyle to market Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo charters worldwide. This relationship ended in June 2006. The same month Antonov Airlines and another large player in the global specialty air cargo business, Volga-Dnepr Airlines (Russia), established a joint venture company — Ruslan International[2] — where each company has a 50% stake. The joint operation of the Ukrainian and Russian fleets allows them to share the combined An-124-100 commercial fleet of seventeen aircraft (seven of which belong to Antonov Airlines)[3] and the only Antonov An-225 in service worldwide — the largest cargo aircraft in the world.[4]
Notable cargo delivered by Antonov Airlines include:
- An 88 ton water turbine for the Tashtakumska Hydroelectric Plant from Kharkiv to Tashkent;
- Civil engineering vehicles to deal with the consequences of the earthquake in Spitak, Armenia;
- Vehicles and systems for resolving the Persian Gulf crisis (mine clearance bulldozers, mobile electric stations, special mine, and oil-clearing boats, humanitarian assistance);[5]
- A 135.2 ton Siemens generator from Düsseldorf, Germany to Delhi, India was air-lifted by An-124;[6]
- Nuclear fuel in special containers from Habaniya, Iraq to Yekaterinburg (Russia) under the United Nations program for disarmament of Iraq;
- A 102 ton locomotive from London, Canada to Dublin, Ireland;[7][8]
- A 70 ton generator was flown to Lahore, Pakistan from Doncaster Robin Hood, United Kingdom for power station needs;
- A 187.6 ton power plant generator from Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, Germany to Yerevan (listed in the Guinness Book of Records[9])
- A 95 ton Putzmeister concrete pump from the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport to Japan to assist with the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant[10]
Fleet
Currently the airline's fleet consist of:[11]
- 1 Antonov An-225 Mriya (shared with the Antonov Design Bureau)
- 7 Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan
- 1 Antonov An-22 Antaeus (Stored)
- 3 Antonov An-12
- 1 Antonov An-26
- 1 Antonov An-74
Antonov Airlines also operates the following aircraft for the Antonov Design Bureau:
- 1 Antonov An-28 (Antonov Design Bureau)
- 1 Antonov An-32 (Antonov Design Bureau)
- 3 Antonov An-140 (Antonov Design Bureau)
- 2 Antonov An-148 (Antonov Design Bureau)
References
- ↑ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 76.
- ↑ Flight International 27 March 2007
- ↑ "Company Profile". Volga-dnepr.com. 2006-12-27. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
- ↑ a maximum take-off weight of over 600 tonnes and the plane with the widest wing-span, at 88.4 m (290 ft) http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-5000/heaviest-item-airlifted/
- ↑
- ↑ http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/08/17/331063/video-worlds-largest-aircraft-an-225-emerges-to-set-new-lift-record.html
- ↑ "Antonov's Giant: the An-124 Ruslan".
- ↑ "looking at irish rail past and today".
- ↑ http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-5000/heaviest-item-airlifted/
- ↑ Pavey, Rob (2011-03-31). "SRS pump will head to Japan | The Augusta Chronicle". Chronicle.augusta.com. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
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