AN-124-150: production in the West?

Post by **ElcoB** » 07 Aug 2006, 23:55

Antonov believes a minimum of 50 to 80 aircraft can be sold. The An-124 already is being leased extensively by European Union and NATO customers. The primary variant proposed is the An-124-150 with a 150 tonne payload, while the An-124-300 is being considered for the distant future. Production could take place at a Western European facility

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achace · Post by **achace** » 08 Aug 2006, 14:12

This plane does things nothing in the West is even close to, and is alone in the game. All it needs is decent engines and upgraded avionics, and the world is its oyster.

Moving production to the west would be a bad move. Just Westernise it.

Cheers
achace

Andries · Post by **Andries** » 08 Aug 2006, 14:50

Give it a new wing and replace the engines with 6 Trent 900's

What a sight that would be !

Greetz,

Andries

mmciau · Post by **mmciau** » 08 Aug 2006, 23:42

Andries wrote:Give it a new wing and replace the engines with 6 Trent 900's
What a sight that would be !

Greetz,

Andries

Are you talking about the AN-225?

Mike

Orange_Jumper · Post by **Orange_Jumper** » 12 Aug 2006, 17:45

However, the current an-124 engines are stage 3 (bypass??) engines? sow for the moment thats good.....

Ps...I am new here...

fokker_f27 · Post by **fokker_f27** » 12 Aug 2006, 21:58

First of all: Welcome Orange_Jumper!

Maybe the A380's engines will do? Tough I think that Antonov is better off leasing them then trying to sell them. There arn't very many heavy-lift cargo airlines out there. I can only think of Polet and Volga-Dnepr (wich already have the Ruslan) and Heavylift. If HL and some governmnts are interested, it might be a good idea. But if noone is interested then the project is completly useless and will cause a big loss for Antonov.

Dorfmeister · Post by **Dorfmeister** » 12 Aug 2006, 23:10

Orange_Jumper wrote:However, the current an-124 engines are stage 3 (bypass??) engines? sow for the moment thats good.....

4 Lotarev D-18T which can be made compliant with small modifications to stage III (as it has already been done for the An-225).

There is a english speaking russian aviation forum where they had already talked about it but I've forgotten the link. Sorry.

The An-124-300 is a planned two (or three) man crewed variant with westernised avionics and engines and a higher MTOW.

Rgds

David747 · Post by **David747** » 13 Aug 2006, 05:29

achace wrote:This plane does things nothing in the West is even close to, and is alone in the game. All it needs is decent engines and upgraded avionics, and the world is its oyster.

Moving production to the west would be a bad move. Just Westernise it.

Cheers
achace

I agree, westernize the plane. I think Most Eastern European and Russian airplane manufacturers should be westernized(sorry for sounding like a cultural hegemon) but with western technology mixed with aircrafts like the An124, and Tu-204, these planes would find customers outside of Russia and Eastern Europe.

A225HVY · Post by **A225HVY** » 13 Aug 2006, 15:30

fokker_f27 wrote:First of all:
There arn't very many heavy-lift cargo airlines out there. I can only think of Polet and Volga-Dnepr (which already have the Ruslan) and Heavylift.

Operators of AN124-100 currently
Antonov Design Bureau (Antonov Airlines)
Volga Dnepr
Polyet
Libyan Arab Airlines
And the UAE have one

ADB currently Certifying the AN124-150 with UR82008

Heavylift have never operated the AN124 they were General Sales
Agents for Volga Dnepr before they spilt and joined Air Foyle as AFH to be general sales agents for ADB After which ADB ceased operations with Air Foyle Heavylift and formed a consortium with Volga under the trading name Ruslan international to sell both airlines 124 operations

A225HVY