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Big plane, big price tag: Gennadiy Silchenko, Antonov's AN-225 program director, says the plane requires investment of $250 million to $350 million to be completed. He says it's 70% finished.
The Antonov An-225 Mriya, destroyed in the Russia-Ukraine war, may be rebuilt for around $500 million. Plans to rebuild the aircraft resurfaced after initial delays; no confirmed specifics yet.
Major Antonov provided a tour of what's left of Hostomel Airport and the planes that are parked there. The An-225 makes its appearance at about 18 minutes in. АЭРОПОРТ ГОСТОМЕЛЬ.
There has been some uncertainty around this news as it has alternately been claimed to have been destroyed or to have miraculously survived, but now a set of photographs have emerged showing what ...
The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over pilot Yevhen Bashynsky. Ukraine says it will rebuild the giant aircraft after it was destroyed as Russia’s full-scale invasion ...
Antonov officials say another An-225 was partially built -- but abandoned in the 1990s because of a lack of funds. The current plan is to use what they already have as the basis for a new plane.
The Antonov An-124 was a heavy-lift strategic military transport the Soviets built in 1982. This aircraft was similar to the U.S.'s Lockheed C-5 Galaxy and was the basis of the An-225.
It can hold 92,000 gallons. The plane made three fuel stops to get to Wichita from Milan, Italy, where the refinery components were made. It entered the United States in Bangor, Maine, LaLonde said.