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
Article
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