{"id":646958,"date":"2026-05-06T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/the-an-225-mriya-the-biggest-plane-ever-built-destroyed-in-a-day\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:08:06","slug":"the-an-225-mriya-the-biggest-plane-ever-built-destroyed-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/the-an-225-mriya-the-biggest-plane-ever-built-destroyed-in-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The AN-225 Mriya: The Biggest Plane Ever Built, Destroyed in a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\nFor thirty-three years, the Antonov AN-225 Mriya was the largest aircraft ever built. Six engines, a 290-foot wingspan, and a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes \u2014 numbers that boggled the imagination every time the Ukrainian giant appeared in the sky. Aviation enthusiasts tracked its movements like a rare bird. Airports shut down to accommodate it. Crowds gathered on perimeter fences wherever it landed.\n\nOn February 27, 2022 \u2014 three days into Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine \u2014 the Mriya was destroyed in its hangar at Hostomel Airport, northwest of Kyiv. Russian forces seized the airfield in an airborne assault. Ukrainian forces counterattacked. Somewhere in the crossfire, the world&#8217;s largest aircraft burned.\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 20px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Antonov AN-225 Mriya (Dream)<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> December 21, 1988<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Wingspan:<\/strong> 88.4 m (290 ft) \u2014 largest of any aircraft ever built<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Max takeoff weight:<\/strong> 640 tonnes<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engines:<\/strong> 6 \u00d7 Ivchenko Progress D-18T turbofans<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Destroyed:<\/strong> February 27, 2022, Hostomel Airport, Ukraine<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Replacement:<\/strong> Antonov announced plans to build AN-225-2 using existing components<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Born to Carry a Space Shuttle<\/h2>\n\nThe AN-225 was built for one purpose: to carry the Buran space shuttle on its back. The Soviet Union needed an aircraft that could transport the 100-tonne orbiter from its manufacturing plant in Moscow to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan \u2014 a distance of 2,100 kilometres across Central Asian steppe where no road could bear the weight.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1097647782  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b5\/Antonov_Design_Bureau_Antonov_An-225_Mriya_at_Leipzig_Halle_%28EDDP-LEJ%29.jpg\/960px-Antonov_Design_Bureau_Antonov_An-225_Mriya_at_Leipzig_Halle_%28EDDP-LEJ%29.jpg\" alt=\"Antonov AN-225 Mriya in flight\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Antonov AN-225 Mriya \u2014 the largest aircraft ever built, with six engines and a 290-foot wingspan. Destroyed in the opening days of Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nAntonov&#8217;s design team in Kyiv, led by chief designer Viktor Tolmachev, started with the existing AN-124 Ruslan \u2014 already the world&#8217;s largest production cargo aircraft \u2014 and scaled it up. They added two engines (six total), stretched the fuselage, widened the wingspan, and reinforced the structure to support external loads on the dorsal mount.\n\nThe result was something the world had never seen. The Mriya dwarfed everything at every airport it visited. Its nose could open like a giant mouth to swallow oversized cargo. Its six engines produced 309,000 pounds of thrust \u2014 enough to lift a fully loaded Boeing 747 and have thrust to spare.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The World&#8217;s Cargo Carrier<\/h2>\n\nAfter the Soviet Union collapsed and the Buran programme was cancelled, the Mriya sat idle for nearly a decade. In 2001, Antonov Airlines returned it to service as a commercial cargo carrier \u2014 the only aircraft in the world capable of carrying certain oversized loads.\n\nIt hauled power plant generators, wind turbine components, military vehicles, and emergency humanitarian supplies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mriya made headlines flying massive loads of medical equipment from China to Europe. Each flight was an event. Aviation spotters would travel hundreds of miles for a glimpse.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Three Days of War<\/h2>\n\nHostomel Airport, also known as Antonov Airport, was the Mriya&#8217;s home base. On February 24, 2022, Russian airborne forces launched a helicopter-borne assault on the airfield in one of the opening moves of the invasion. The goal was to seize the airport as a staging base for a rapid advance on Kyiv.\n\nUkrainian forces counterattacked fiercely. The airport changed hands multiple times over three days of intense fighting. The Mriya, unable to be evacuated in time, sat in its hangar through the battle. By February 27, satellite imagery confirmed the worst: the hangar was destroyed, and the aircraft with it.\n\nThe images of the burned-out wreckage \u2014 the unmistakable twin tail fins poking through collapsed roof panels \u2014 became one of the defining images of the war&#8217;s opening days.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Dream Reborn?<\/h2>\n\nAntonov has announced plans to build a second AN-225 using components that were manufactured for a second airframe (designated AN-225-2) but never assembled. The project has attracted international interest and pledges of financial support. Whether it will actually be completed \u2014 in the middle of a war that has devastated Ukraine&#8217;s industrial base \u2014 remains uncertain.\n\nThe name &#8220;Mriya&#8221; means &#8220;Dream&#8221; in Ukrainian. For thirty-three years, it was a dream that flew. Its destruction was not just the loss of an aircraft. It was the loss of something that made people look up.\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:32px\"><em>Sources: Antonov Company, Aviation Week, BBC News, Ukrinform<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For thirty-three years, the Antonov AN-225 Mriya was the largest aircraft ever built. Six engines, a 290-foot wingspan, and a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes \u2014 numbers that boggled the imagination every time the Ukrainian giant appeared in the sky. Aviation enthusiasts tracked its movements like a rare bird. 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