The Antonov AN-124 (c/n 19530502288/02-08 built in 1990) carries "BE BRAVE LIKE KHaRKIV" special inscription on both sides and from 2022, along with the other aircraft of the Antonov Airlines and the Antonov Design Bureau, is operating from outside the Ukraine. In 1988 a single example of a six-engined An-225 Mriya was developed from the AN-124. At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine the Russian Air Force bombed the Antonov plant and unfortunately the Mriya was destroyed.
In the picture: The Antonov An-124-100M Ruslan UR-82027 operated by the Ucrainian Antonov Airlines lands at Caselle airport on October 6, 2024. It carried the Sentinel-1C satellite to the Kourou space centre in French Guyana. (Aeromedia)
(Aeromedia, October 2024)
