Antonov Airlines

Antonov Airlines
IATA code :
ICAO code :	ADB
Call sign :	ANTONOV BUREAU
Founding:	1989
Seat:	Kiev , Ukraine
Turnstile :	Gostomel Airport; Leipzig-Halle Airport;
Home airport :	Gostomel Airport
Company form:	Corporation
Fleet size:	20 (+ 2 orders)
Aims:	international
Website:	www.antonov.com

Antonov Airlines is the English-translated name of the Ukrainian airline Авіалінії Антонова , based in Kiev . Your home airport and hub is Gostomel Airport . She also works as part of SALIS at Leipzig / Halle Airport .

history

Antonov Airlines was founded in 1989 to cooperate with the international logistics company Air Foyle Heavylift based in the United Kingdom .

As of February 2016, the Antonov Airlines fleet consists of 20 aircraft:

Aircraft type	active	inactive	ordered	Remarks
Antonov An-12 BP		1
Antonov An-22	1			In use again after a major overhaul in 2020
Antonov An-24 B		1
Antonov An-26	1
Antonov An-70 T			1
Antonov An-72		1
Antonov An-74		1
Antonov An-74 T	1
Antonov An-124 -100	7th
Antonov An-140	1	1		One is as a prototype for Antonov operated
Antonov An-148	2	2		Status: Feb 2018
Antonov An-158	1
Antonov An-178	1			Antonov Airlines operates the only An-178 in the world
Antonov An-225	1			Antonov Airlines operates the only An-225 in the world
total	15th	8th	1

In addition, Antonov Airlines used the following aircraft types in the past:

Antonov Airlines recorded five incidents in its history:

On September 16, 1991 an Antonov An-74 (registration number СССР-74002) had an accident while taking off from Lensk airfield en route to Omsk airport . The plane was overloaded and crashed 4 km later. The six crew members and seven passengers were killed.
On October 13, 1992, the second prototype of the Antonov An-124 (registration number СССР-82002) crashed on a test flight from Kiev-Hostomel airport due to a bird strike . One of the nine crew members was able to save himself, the rest were killed.
On July 6, 1994, an Antonov An-32 P fire-fighting aircraft (registration number UR-48018), which was used at Valencia Airport , had an accident . Five of the six people on board were killed.
On February 10, 1995, the prototype of the Antonov An-70 crashed on a test flight from Kiev-Hostomel Airport. The plane collided with its escort aircraft, an Antonov An-72 , and crashed. All seven crew members were killed.
On September 5, 2004, an Antonov An-12 (registration number UR-11765) had an accident when it shot over the runway .

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