Lost in the fighting that ensued for control of the airport was the world's largest plane, the Antonov An-225. The massive ...

The Antonov An-225 Mriya is the heaviest aircraft ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640,000 kg. The Airbus A380 is the second-heaviest aircraft globally, with a maximum takeoff weight ...

Read on for the biggest planes that grace the skies today. Antonov An-225 Mirya The largest plane in the world, only one of these massive cargo jets was ever built. Its first flight was in ...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The United States government has contacted Heavylift Cargo Airlines about using a giant Antonov freighter plane to bring its damaged EP-3 spy plane home from China ...

Aviation enthusiasts crowded Auckland Airport's runway viewing area on Sunday to see one of the world's largest planes take off. The Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircraft arrived from American Samoa on ...

Seen alongside the helicopters, the huge plane dwarfed other aircraft at the MPA airport. (Pic Roy Summers Unloading the Antonov by Sulivan Shipping service Ltd. (Pic by Sulivan) The pictures show ...

ULYANOVSK, August 16 /ITAR-TASS/. Plans for resuming the production and upgrade of the Antonov-124 jumbo jet Ruslan, which Russian and Ukrainian aircraft builders have mulled for the past few ...

suggesting that the aircraft—AirMed flight N823AM and Cavok Air’s Antonov An-12B cargo plane—were used to transport cocaine and cash to Gran Canaria, Spain. GACL emphasised that the landing ...

The Antonov aircraft went down on Tuesday night near Wadi Seidna air base, one of the army's largest military hubs in Omdurman, northwest of the capital. The army, which has been at war with the ...

Antonov aircraft over North Darfur's capital of El Fasher on Thursday. They claim the plane was downed during army airstrikes targeting more than ten RSF positions in and around the city.