The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over Yevhen Bashynsky. Affectionately known as the Mriya, or “Dream,” the leviathan plane was the pride of Ukraine and of 38-year-old ...

The largest and heaviest transport aircraft ever built was originally designed to carry the Soviet space shuttle ...

A massive Ukrainian cargo plane, among the heaviest aircrafts in the world, flew to Denver International Airport this week to drop off a helicopter, officials said. The airport highlighted the special ...

The former director of Antonov State Enterprise, Serhii Bychkov, was charged with official negligence leading to the destruction of the world's largest cargo aircraft AN-225 Mriya, Ukraine's Security ...

Two aviation giants face off in a battle of size and strength, but which will reign supreme?

As far as cargo aircraft go, this is a big one, right at the top of the freight carrier heap, behind only the Boeing 747-8, with its higher maximum takeoff weight. An Antonov-124-100 Ruslan aircraft ...

The world's largest airplane, the Antonov An225 Mriya, was born in the Soviet Union in 1988. It measured 275 feet long and weighed nearly 420,000 pounds, designed to piggyback the USSR's Buran space ...

The sheared nose cone of the Antonov An-225 cargo plane towers over Yevhen Bashynsky. Affectionately known as the Mriya, or "Dream," the leviathan plane was the pride of Ukraine and of 38-year-old ...