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Key facts
- Type
- Civil and military transport aircraft
- Designer
- Antonov
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- Soviet Air Forces (historical) Russian Aerospace Forces , Cavok Air
- Number built
- 1,248
- Manufactured
- 1957–1973
- First flight
- 16 December 1957 ( 1957-12-16 )
- Variant
- Antonov An-10
- Developed into
- Shaanxi Y-8
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- ATRAN
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Based on
- Antonov An-10 Ukraina
- Developer
- Antonov
- Mass
- 61.000
- Manufacturer
- Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation
- Designed by
- Oleg Antonov
- Image
- Antonov An-12B, Antonov Design Bureau AN0373725.jpg
- Height
- 94.5
- Width
- 118
- Length
- 1456.5
- Speed
- 1970
- Has use
- airlift
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- Commons gallery
- Antonov An-12
- Commons category
- Antonov An-12
- NATO reporting name
- Cub
- armament
- Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23
- maximum operating altitude
- 33500
- first flight
- 1959-01-01
- service entry
- 1959-00-00
- total produced
- 1248
- wingspan
- 1496
- vehicle range
- 3075
- maximum capacity
- 100
- nickname
- чёрный тюльпан
- wing configuration
- shoulder wing
- wing area
- 121.7
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Encyclopedic overview
The Antonov An-12 (Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than three decades, the An-12 was the standard medium-range cargo and paratroop transport aircraft of the Soviet Air Forces. A total of 1,248 aircraft were built.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antonov An-12” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.