Key facts
- Type
- Turboprop regional airliner
- Manufacturer
- Antonov , Aviakor , HESA
- Designer
- Antonov
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- Ministry of Defense (Russia) Russian Naval Aviation , Motor Sich Airlines , Yakutia Airlines
- Manufactured
- 1997–2016
- First flight
- 17 September 1997
- Developed into
- HESA Simourgh
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- Russian Air Force
- Country of origin
- Ukraine
- Developer
- Antonov
- Manufacturer
- Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company
- Image
- Antonov An-140 1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Antonov An-140
- maximum operating altitude
- 7200
- first flight
- 1997-09-17
- service entry
- 1999-00-00
- total produced
- 36
- wing configuration
- shoulder wing
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Antonov An-140 is a turboprop regional airliner, designed by the Ukrainian Antonov ASTC bureau as a successor to the Antonov An-24, with extended cargo capacity and the ability to use unprepared airstrips.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antonov An-140” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.