An-24 | |
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General information | |
Type | Transport aircraft / Turboprop Regional airliner |
National origin | Soviet Union |
Manufacturer | Antonov |
Status | In limited service |
Primary users | UTair Cargo |
Number built | 1,388 (including the Chinese Y-7)[1] |
History | |
Manufactured | 1959–1979 |
Introduction date | 1962 |
First flight | 29 October 1959[1] |
Developed into | Antonov An-30 Antonov An-26 Antonov An-32 Xi'an Y-7 Antonov/Taqnia An-132 |
The Antonov An-24 (Russian/Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-24) (NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau[1] and manufactured by Kyiv, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude Aviation Factories. It was the first of a future family of turboprops by Antonov. The An-30 came next with a cartographic configuration, then the An-26 with a military configuration and the An-32 modernized version. The Xi'an Y-7 is a Chinese-built fifth member of the family that eventually branched off into the Xi'an MA60 family. The An-132 was intended to be the next member of the An-24 family, but Saudi Arabia's Taqnia left the project and canceled their orders and the only prototype was destroyed, which led to the project being canceled.