A mega-plane has landed in Dusseldorf: Antonov is already gone – it's their next stop – region

Düsseldorf. Planespotter must simply be very patient: the Düsseldorf airport has been waiting since Friday for a very special plane. Originally, this date should be extremely rare Antonov 124 lands. Then announced the airport in Düsseldorf: The mega-plane is scheduled to arrive Monday afternoon in Düsseldorf. But nothing came out of it.

Wednesday morning she is here

Wednesday morning at 9 am, the wait has finally ended. The mega-plane landed at Düsseldorf airport.

But only a few hours later, the Antonov take off again. Departure is scheduled for 12 hours. The finally moved at 12:30 pm. Meanwhile, the huge machine is en route to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.

The WEST keeps you informed of the latest developments.

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Developed for Soviet forces

The aircraft built in Ukraine is a gigantic cargo plane, originally designed for the Soviet armed forces. Of the machines put into service in the 1980s, 30 are not even in service worldwide.

This makes the arrival of the Antonov also special for the third largest German airport in Düsseldorf.

The gigantic Antonov can start with a weight of over 400 tons. It has a wingspan of 73.3 meters (exceeding all versions of the Boeing 747). the Antonov 124 will continue to be rare. Efforts to resume production have been until now in the sand. Other remarkable achievements of Antonov 124:

• In 1987, she traveled a record distance of 20,151 km
• In 2005, a plane transported an ancient obelisk from Rome to Ethiopia
• 2011 a transported Antonov 124 a heavy concrete pump from Germany to Fukushima. It was necessary to repair one of the damaged nuclear reactors

Antonov 124 has an even bigger brother

Even rarer than that Antonov 124 is actually only his big brother and successor, the 225th Antonov. It is considered the largest cargo plane in the world and was planned in the last years of the Soviet Union. The mega-plane was to carry the Buran Soviet space shuttle, equivalent to the space shuttle. Currently only one aircraft of this type is in service.

the Antonov 225 holds the record for the heaviest cargo ever transported (190 tons) and the heaviest total freight (254 tons). (with fel)