Lost in the fighting that ensued for control of the airport was the world's largest plane, the Antonov An-225. The massive ...

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 ...

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].

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.