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Key facts
- Type
- Regional airliner / military transport
- National origin
- Soviet Union
- Manufacturer
- Antonov
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- Aeroflot (former) IrAero , Utair , Polar Airlines , Khabarovsk Airlines , Air Koryo
- Number built
- 1,367+
- Manufactured
- 1959–1971
- First flight
- 29 October 1959
- Developed into
- Antonov An-30 , Antonov An-26 , Antonov An-32 , Xi'an Y-7 , Antonov/Taqnia An-132
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- Air Koryo
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Developer
- Antonov
- Manufacturer
- Antonov
- Designed by
- Oleg Antonov
- Image
- Mordovia Airlines Antonov An-24.jpg
- Height
- 8.32
- Length
- 23.53
- Has use
- airliner
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- powered by
- AI-24
- NATO reporting name
- Coke
- wing configuration
- shoulder wing
- Commons category
- Antonov An-24
- Commons gallery
- Antonov An-24
- first flight
- 1959-12-20
- service entry
- 1962-00-00
- total produced
- 1367
- derivative work
- Antonov An-32
- wingspan
- 29.2
- maximum operating altitude
- 8400
- cruise speed
- 450
- vehicle range
- 2761
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Encyclopedic overview
The Antonov An-24 (Russian/Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-24; NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop regional airliner designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau. Later variants saw other uses, such as military transport and aerial cartography. The aircraft was manufactured by the Kyiv, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude Aviation Factories. It is still license-produced in China as the Xi'an Y-7.
The An-24 was the first of a future family of turboprops by Antonov. The first variant was the An-30, which came equipped with a cartographic configuration. It was then followed by the An-26, which was a more militarized version of the airliner. The final variant was the An-32, which was given more modernized equipment and powerful engines. The An-132 was the result of a joint venture between Antonov and Saudi Arabia's Taqnia to develop a modernized version of the An-24 family, but Taqnia left the project and the only prototype was destroyed, which led to the project being cancelled.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antonov An-24” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.