Giant in Rzeszów: On Flightradar24 you could follow on Friday The mysterious flight of Antonova An-124-100 Ruslan. The machine reached Poland from Portsmouth, Great Britain. According to Wirtualna Polska plane It belongs to Ukraine. There aren't information About what Antonov transported.
US direction? Before noon, on Friday, the machine started from the Rzeszów airport and took the direction of the northwest. The data available on Flightradar24 shows that the largest transport aircraft in the world He headed towards the USA. The machine did not have the starting code given, and the target airport was not given.
Logistics hub in Rzeszów: Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport is a logistics hub, which plays an important role, among others In weapon transport for Ukraine fighting with Russia. An-124 Ruslan is a four-engine, jet transport aircraft of Soviet production. It was designed in office Antonowa construction. The prototype was flown in 1982 in Kiev.
Aircraft from the time of the USSR: An-24 entered service in the Soviet Military Transport forces in 1987 for the first time It was officially presented at the Paris Air Show in 1985. And then it was The largest transport aircraft in the world. The machine has a wing range of over 73 meters, the length is about 70 meters and can transport up to 150 tons of load.
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Sources: Flightradar24, Virtual Poland