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Vinony's link graph records 496 inbound references to Antonov An-12, and connects out to Antonov, Soviet Air Forces and United States.
Vinony files it under 1950s Soviet cargo aircraft, 1950s Soviet military transport aircraft and Aircraft first flown in 1957.
Vinony links it to 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Type
- Civil and military transport aircraft
- Designer
- Antonov
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- Soviet Air Forces (historical) Russian Aerospace Forces , Cavok Air
- Number built
- 1,248
- Manufactured
- 1957–1973
- First flight
- 16 December 1957 ( 1957-12-16 )
- Variant
- Antonov An-10
- Developed into
- Shaanxi Y-8
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- ATRAN
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Based on
- Antonov An-10 Ukraina
- Developer
- Antonov
- Mass
- 61.000
- Manufacturer
- Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation
- Designed by
- Oleg Antonov
- Image
- Antonov An-12B, Antonov Design Bureau AN0373725.jpg
- Height
- 94.5
- Width
- 118
- Length
- 1456.5
- Speed
- 1970
- Has use
- airlift
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- Commons gallery
- Antonov An-12
- Commons category
- Antonov An-12
- NATO reporting name
- Cub
- armament
- Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23
- maximum operating altitude
- 33500
- first flight
- 1959-01-01
- service entry
- 1959-00-00
- total produced
- 1248
- wingspan
- 1496
- vehicle range
- 3075
- maximum capacity
- 100
- nickname
- чёрный тюльпан
- wing configuration
- shoulder wing
- wing area
- 121.7
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Encyclopedic overview
The Antonov An-12 (Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than three decades, the An-12 was the standard medium-range cargo and paratroop transport aircraft of the Soviet Air Forces. A total of 1,248 aircraft were built.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antonov An-12” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.