Originally Posted by
Lizie
No, not a one off, 3 I think. Would imagine this one was kept flying by robbing bits off the others.
There is only ONE AN-225 (Mriya). There are quite a few AN-124s (Ruslan) out there.
The second AN-225 was never finished. There are some parts of it that have been in the works since the late 1980s, but it was never finished. Antonov Airlines is a moneymaking machine, but the market did not need 2 such planes, so they never finished the second one.
I'm proud to say that both my dad and grandpa both were involved in the development of the plane as engineers.
Here is the chief pilot's youtube channel where he filmed many of the takeoffs and landings (mostly in Russian)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_i...2qZQcu2feXWhDg