Russia resumes An-124 production

[alert5]

Aviastar-SP is resuming series production of the An-124 Ruslan. 36 Ruslans had been produced in the last 20 years.

Volga-Dnepr and Polet airlines will acquire five aircraft each.

The domestic and foreign market for such planes is estimated at 50.

http://www.radarvector.com/2005/08/russia-resumes-production-of-worlds.html

[Dave]

Excellent! I am actually really pleased (no I'm not being sarcastic).

I find a lot of the Russian aircraft fascinating. There are far too many Boeing and Airbus in the world.

[Taffer]

Russian aircraft?

Though production is resuming in Russia through Aviastar, Anotonov is Ukrainian, not Russian.

[MarkD]

Hope they fit decent brakes (see the IL-96 grounding).

Not really surprising as the current operators seem to be doing brisk business ferrying military equipment around... wasn't there a proposal to build more -225s too?