Key facts
- Type
- Heavy transport helicopter
- Manufacturer
- Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant
- Status
- Retired from service
- Primary users
- Soviet Air Force (historical) Aeroflot (historical)
- Manufactured
- 1959–1980
- First flight
- 5 June 1957
- Retired
- 2002 (Russia CAA)
- Variant
- Mil Mi-10
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Wikidata facts
- Operator
- Algerian Air Force
- Developer
- Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant
- Diameter
- 35
- Manufacturer
- Rostvertol
- Designed by
- Mikhail Mil
- Image
- Mi-6, technical museum, Togliatti-2.JPG
- Length
- 33.18
- Has use
- airlifter
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- Commons category
- Mil Mi-6
- NATO reporting name
- Hook
- powered by
- Soloviev D-25
- Commons gallery
- Mil Mi-6
- first flight
- 1957-06-05
- service retirement
- 2002-00-00
- service entry
- 1963-00-00
- total produced
- 926
- subject has role
- airlifter
- cruise speed
- 250
- maximum operating altitude
- 4500
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Encyclopedic overview
The Mil Mi-6 (NATO reporting name Hook), given the article number izdeliye 50 and company designation V-6, is a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter that was designed by the Mil design bureau. It was built in large numbers for both military and civil use and was the largest helicopter in production until the Mil Mi-26 was put in production in 1980.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mi-6” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.