Key facts
- Type
- Transport aircraft / regional airliner
- National origin
- Soviet Union
- Manufacturer
- Antonov
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- Soviet Air Forces (former) Russian Aerospace Forces , Ukrainian Air Force , People's Liberation Army Air Force
- Number built
- 1,403
- Manufactured
- 1969–present (in China as Y-7)
- First flight
- 21 May 1969
- Developed from
- Antonov An-24
- Variants
- Xi'an Y-7 , Antonov An-32
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- airliner
- Part of
- passenger transport
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Based on
- Antonov An-24
- Developer
- Antonov
- Mass
- 52911
- Manufacturer
- Antonov Serial Production Plant
- Image
- Antonov An-26B, Air-Urga JP7560169.jpg
- Height
- 75
- Width
- 94.5
- Length
- 937
- Speed
- 1575
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- NATO reporting name
- Curl
- Commons category
- Antonov An-26
- Commons gallery
- Antonov An-26
- military designation
- T-70
- first flight
- 1969-05-21
- total produced
- 1403
- service entry
- 1973-00-00
- wingspan
- 1149.5
- payload mass
- 12125
- maximum operating altitude
- 24600
- vehicle range
- 1214
- maximum capacity
- 5
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Encyclopedic overview
The Antonov An-26 (NATO reporting name: Curl, nicknamed Nastia in the USSR) is a twin-engined turboprop regional airliner and military transport aircraft, designed and produced in the Soviet Union from 1969 to 1986. It is the third member of the Antonov An-24 family, coming after the An-24 and An-30, while preceding the An-32 and cancelled An-132. The An-26 is license-produced in China as the Xi'an Y-7.
Development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antonov An-26” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.