The aircraft is an Antonov An-225, conceived by Soviet engineers in the dying days of the Cold War as a gigantic, gravity-defying workhorse that would help communism’s ongoing race into space and ...

Antonov’s mighty An-225 Mriya is a legendary aircraft. It is the largest plane to ever enter service in the world, and only one has been completed to date, with the first aircraft entering service in ...

Summary and Key Points: In the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest aircraft, was destroyed during a failed Russian raid on the ...

An-225 Mriya Stopped Over In Leipzig. And We Went There To Meet The Giant. On Nov. 12, we visited Leipzig international airport, Germany, in order to have a closer look at the largest airplane in ...

The images of the wrecked Antonov AN-225 are now an indelible memory for aviation enthusiasts worldwide. Built in the 1980s to ferry the Soviet space shuttle, the plane got a second life after the ...

It boasts the largest wingspan of any airplane in operational service. Because of its size, pilots need special training to cope with the challenges of maneuvering the An-225. One of the airplane’s ...

On the outskirts of Kiev, somewhere between the city’s Nyvky and Sviatoshyn metro stations, sits a drab industrial building that you could drive past a thousand times without guessing it contains an ...