New Ukrainian transport aircraft become sensation in Turkey
Citat:Turkey’s Antalya has hosted the largest regional aviation event the Eurasia Airshow. The Eurasia Airshow, which opened April 25 and closes April 28, attracted commercial and defense actors from Turkey’s NATO allied countries as well as Ukraine, Russia, and Iran to the 300,000 square meters of exhibition space at Antalya International Airport.
More than 100 aircraft were displayed, but exactly Ukrainian AN-77, AN-178 transport aircraft and project of new jointly AN-188 cargo plane have become a real sensation of Eurasia Airshow.
The Ukrainian State Enterprise “Antonov” has unveiled a new version of four-engine medium-range transport aircraft called the AN-77 and AN-178 short-range medium-airlift transport aircraft at the Eurasia 2018 Airshow. Also for the first time, was publicly showed the model of new An-188 transport aircraft.
Ukraine-made planes have become an international sensation and were drawn attention from media and experts. Also flying of An-77 and AN-178 has caused a furore on social media.
As for the aircraft themselves, the AN-77 is an updated version of AN-70 medium-range transport aircraft which is offered for export customers. It designed to replace the outdated AN-12 and Il-76 military transport aircraft. On AN-77 bases also will be developed new AN-188 aircraft is a jet engine powered version of the Antonov AN-70 transport plane currently powered by four Ivchenko progress D-27 engines.
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