The Mriya could carry a massive payload, yet, it only made around 10 flights annually. The AN-225 was often employed to help ...

or the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane. This last machine has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the last few days, with reports emerging that it may have been destroyed in the ...

Brought into existence by the Antonov Design Bureau, the An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: dream/sleep) was a singular marvel, designed based on the An-124 Ruslan, under the purview of the Buran program.

In late 1988, the An-225, as the aircraft was officially called, rolled out of the assembly shop of the Oleg Antonov Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex. The aircraft was named Mriya [Dream].