An-225 Mriya, NATO: Cossack |
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The Antonov An-225 flew to Pago Pago on October 13 to deliver generators to American Samoa after stopping over in Honolulu on October 12. Antonov Design Bureau flight ADB3688 departed from Honolulu for Pago Pago at 12:32 GMT. It also stopped at Ontario, California on Sunday, October 11.
The An-225 flew from Honolulu to Houston on Thursday, October 15. Flight ADB388F was scheduled to depart from Honolulu at 8:20 AM HST and arrive in Houston at 9:42 PM CDT. It took off at 10:41 AM HST and is expected to arrive at Houston at 12:21 AM CDT. The An-225 will fly over LAX, Palm Springs, Blythe, Casa Grande, El Paso, and San Antonio on its way to Houston. Watch for the plane with six contrails.
The An-225 flew from Houston to Honolulu on Friday, October 16. Flight ADB3689 departed from Houston at 9:27 PM CDT and arrived in Honolulu at 1:02 AM HST on Saturday, October 17.
The An-225 flew from Honolulu to Pago Pago on Sunday, October 18. Flight ADB3689 departed from Honolulu at 2:11 AM HST.
The Antonov An-225 returned to Honolulu and then departed for Edmonton International Airport in Alberta, Canada as flight Flight ADB389F at 3:29 AM HST on Thursday, October 22. It arrives at Edmonton at 2:02 PM MDT. It departed from Edmonton for Nottingham East Midlands in England as Flight ADB3505 at 3:26 AM MDT on Friday, October 23.
Updated October 28: Glen Boss photographed the Antonov An-225 at Honolulu on October 21. It has a new paint job with blue and yellow stripes.
Link to the Google Earth view of the An-225.
Link to the Google Maps view of the An-225.
The An-225 Mriya may be coming to an airport near you in the near future. Please let me know if you catch sight of Mriya.
Recent sightings:
TSgt David T. Long photographed the An-225 at Stuttgart International Airport on April 11, 2003.TSgt David T. Long photographed the An-225 at Stuttgart International Airport on April 11, 2003.
Jakub Dospiva photographed the An-225 at Basrah International Airport, Iraq in September, 2003.September 14, 2003, John F. Kennedy Airport, New York
September 20, John F. Kennedy Airport, New York
September 25, Prestwick Airport Scotland UK
September 26, John F. Kennedy Airport, New York
Stephen Rankel photographed its departure from JFK Airport at about 10:30 A.M. Eastern time on Friday, September 26.October 2, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
October 3, Shannon, Ireland
November 9, Cleveland, Ohio
November 15, John F. Kennedy Airport, New York
November 26, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
December 1, Orlando, Florida
December 1, Bangor International Airport, Maine
December 10, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
December 14, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
December 16, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
December 24, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
Russ Cady photographed the An-225 at Bush Intercontinental Airport on December 24.February 12, 2004, Ted Stevens International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska
February 15 morning, General Mitchell International Airport, Milwaukee, Wisconson
Amy Heritsch photographed the Antonov An-225 Mriya at General Mitchell Int'l Airport, Milwaukee, Wisconson on February 15, 2004.February 15 afternoon, Honolulu, Hawaii.
February 17, General Mitchell International Airport, Milwaukee, Wisconson. Reported to be delivering high-speed rail cars.
February 19, departed Milwaukee, Wisconson.
Mike Singleton photographed the Antonov An-225 Mriya at General Mitchell Int'l Airport, Milwaukee, Wisconson on February 19, 2004.February 20, just north of Sturup airport in southern Sweden heading ESE at 1140 GMT.
Håkan Rigbäck photographed the An-225 Mryia streaming six contrails over Sweden on February 20.April 29, Bangor International Airport, Maine
April 29, McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada
April 30, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
Jim Lanphear photographed the An-225 Mryia at Bush Intercontinental Airport on May 4.May 23, London Stansted Airport
July 29, Koln/Bonn Airport near Cologne, Germany
December 10 - 12, Lester B. Pearson Int'l Airport (YYZ), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
January 12, 2005, Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates
January 16, Baghdad International Airport, Iraq
January 22, Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates
January 25, Baghdad International Airport, Iraq
Tinus Tredoux photographed the An-225 Mriya at Baghdad International Airport on January 25, 2005. Skylink Mi-8 LZ-CDV was shot down with the loss of 11 lives on April 21.February 1, Qandahar Airport, Afghanistan
U.S. Army SSG John Levanger photographed the An-225 Mriya at Qandahar Airport, Afghanistan on February 1, 2005.
U.S. Army SSG John Levanger photographed the An-225 Mriya at Qandahar Airport, Afghanistan on February 1, 2005.
Marine GySGT Troy Mohler photographed the An-225 Mriya at Qandahar Airport, Afghanistan on February 1, 2005.
Marine GySGT Troy Mohler photographed the An-225 Mriya at Qandahar Airport, Afghanistan on February 1, 2005.
Robin Morgan photographed the An-225 Mriya at Qandahar Airport, Afghanistan on February 1, 2005.October 3, Athens, Greece
October 5, Montreal International Mirabel, Quebec, Canada
October 5, Chennault International, Lake Charles, Louisiana
October 5, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
Rod Schwarzer photographed the Antonov An-225 Mriya at Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas in October 2005.
Rod Schwarzer photographed the Antonov An-225 Mriya at Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas in October 2005.October 15, Treton, Ontario, Canada. Departed with Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Pakistan
October 15, Gander, Newfoundland, Canada
October 27, Eindhoven Airport, Netherlands, bound for Pakistan
Koen Gladines photographed the Antonov An-225 Mriya at Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands on October 28, 2005.November 30 to December 3, 2005, Nottingham East Midlands Airport, Great Britain, picking up Christmas gifts to be delivered to Ukrainian orphans.
Steve Marriot photographed the An-225 at Nottingham East Midlands Airport, UK.July 7, 2006, Newark, New Jersey
September 27, 2006, Schoenefeld Airport, Berlin
September 28, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic
October 1, 2006, Manchester, UK, picking up a mobile stage, a trailer full of other staging components, lights, and public address equipment to be delivered to Nigeria. It shipped 140,000 kilos to Lagos for the 46th anniversary celebrations of Nigeria's independence on 7-8 October. Performers included, Beyonce, Snoop Dog, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott and Buster Rhymes.
October 12, 2006, Nottingham East Midlands Airport, UK.
Steve Marriot photographed the An-225 at the Nottingham East Midlands Airport.October 13, 2006, Kiev, Ukraine.
October 27, 2006, Raleigh-Durham Airport, North Carolina.
October 30, 2006, Dar es Salaam,Tanzania, Eastern Africa.
October 31, 2006, Cairo, Egypt.
March 16 - 17, 2007, Vatry int' Airport, France. Arrived from Gostomel Airport, Kiev, Ukraine. Departed to Cairo, Egypt.
June 20, 2007, Memphis, Tennessee.
June 21, 2007, Bangor, Maine.
June 22, 2007, Prestwick, U.K.
June 26, 2007, Tripoli International Airport, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
June 26, 2007, Memphis, Tennessee.
June 27, 2007, Bangor, Maine.
July 3, 2007, Tripoli International Airport, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
July 3, 2007, Memphis, Tennessee.
July 4, 2007, Bangor, Maine.
July 6, 2007, Tripoli International Airport, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
July 7, 2007, Memphis, Tennessee.
July 9, 2007, Bangor, Maine.
August 28, 2007, Chateauroux Airport (CHR), France
August 29, 2007, Lajes Field Azores
August 29, 2007, Le Lamentin (TFFF) Fort-de-France, Martinique island (Caraiba - French Region), delivering electrical generators for the Hurricane Dean relief effort.
August 30, 2007, Rickenbacker International Airport, Columbus, Ohio (KLCK)
Jack Amburgey photographed the Antonov An-225 Mriya at Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio on August 30, 2007.August 31, 2007, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington (KBFI)
October 12, 2007, Mobile, Alabama
November 3, 2007, Prestwick, Glasgow, United Kingdom
November 4, 2007, Greer, Greenville-Spartanburg Airport, South Carolina picking up engines from General Electric.
November 5, 2007, East Midlands, United Kingdom
An-225 Mriya at Skydstrup military airbase, Denmark in November 2007. Photo courtesy: Paul SteckmetzNovember 20, Edmonton International, Alberta, Canada
November 21, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
An-225 Mriya at Houston on November 21, 2007 Photo courtesy Jeanette Fritsche.December 2, 2007, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) transporting payload of French helicopter, Super Puma for Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA 2007)
December 13, 2007: Skrydstrup Air Base, Denmark. It picked up a 65 ton truck for the Canadian Forces.
December 14, 2007: Geilenkirchen, Germany
December 19, 2007, Prestwick, Glasgow, United Kingdom
December 26, 2007, Amsterdam International Airport Schiphol, Netherlands from Kiev, Ukraine
January 19, 2008, AN-225 Mriya arrived at Budapest International Airport from Kiev, Ukraine.
AN-225 Mriya at Budapest International Airport on January 19, 2008. Photo Courtesy Tamás Martényi.January 24, 2008, AN-225 Mriya arrived at Skrydstrup Air Base.
February 2, AN-225 Mriya arrived at Tel Aviv.
February 7, AN-225 Mriya arrived at Geilenkirchen, Germany.
May 12: Trenton, Ontario, Canadian Forces Base
May 16: Paris Orly-Charles de Gaulle Airport bound for Tripoli, Libya
July 6: Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands, departure delayed by landing gear problems.
July 12: Korea
July 14: Eindhoven Airport, Netherlands
Herman Rovers photographed the An-225 on approach to Eindhoven on July 14.
Tamas Martenyl photographed the AN-225 Mriya with a new blue stripe at Kiev, Ukraine on September 27, 2008.
I would like to hear from anybody who sights the Mriya. Send a message to Brian. If you do report a sighting, please say what airplane you are reporting.
Designed specifically to carry oversized cargo externally, the fuselage of the An-225 Mriya has been stretched fifty feet compared to the An-124. An entirely new wing root was designed to add fifty feet to the span of the smaller giant. The wing of the An-225, from just outward of the inboard engine, is similar to the wing of the An-124.
The 290 foot wingspan of the An-225 is exceeded only by the 320 foot wing of Howard Hughes giant flying boat, popularly known as the Spruce Goose. The wing area of the Spruce Goose of 11,430 square feet remains unchallenged as the greatest of any airplane ever built.
The main landing gear of the An-225 has seven pairs of wheels on each side. Twenty of its thirty-two wheels are steerable; the two pairs of nose gear and the rear four pairs of main gear on each side.
The only An-225 to fly to date debuted at Kiev in November 1988. It is the largest airplane ever flown more than once. It was intended to support the Soviet Buran Space Shuttle program. After the collapse of the Soviet Space Shuttle program, the primary function of the An-225 was to attend airshows in the role of the largest airplane in the world. The Ukrainian word Mriya translates roughly as Dream in English.
The Ukrainian An-225 returned to flight in the spring of 2001 at the Hostomel Airport near Kiev, Ukraine. The Ukrainian Motor-Sych company contributed to the $20,000,000 that was needed for Antonov to get the Mryia back into the air. Antonov displayed the An-225 at the air show in Le Bourget, near Paris in June. It is now available for commercial operations. If enough demand develops for its unique oversize cargo carrying abilities, it is likely that the second prototype of the An-225 will be completed. It is possible that Antonov will undertake series production of the type.
Link to a BBC article with photos of the return to flight of the An-225.
Oliver Rudolph photographed the Mriya on a rainy day at the Cologne Airport in August 2003. He reports that it is transporting materiel to Kabul, Afghanistan.
The first appearance in the West of the An-225 Mriya, CCCP-82060, was at the June, 1989 Paris Airshow at le Bourget Aerodrome with the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran mounted on its back.
The nose visor of the An-225 Mriya is essentially the same as that of the An-124 Ruslan. The nose gear is in the fully extended position and the ramp is retracted.
Twin vertical stabilizers were mounted on the ends of the horizontal stabilizer to get them out of the turbulence behind the externally mounted Buran.
The An-225 dwarfs the Mil-17M (Nato: Hip-H) below its wing.
The nose gear has been folded up to the kneeling position and the ramp is extended.. 
Molniya, the manufacturer of the Space Shuttle Burran is offering up the jet-powered Burran analog testbed for sale for something between $13,000,000 and $17,000,000.
Offered for sale is a unique model, Buran 002, the only one from the Russian program, Buran, which made it's take off and landing as a conventional aircraft. Created for development of automatic landing, Buran 002 is a full size analoque of orbital ship built of the same materials and under the same technology as space models.
Link to Encyclopedia Astronautica page describing the Buran program.
Link to the English language section of the Molniya Research and Industrial Corporation web site
The An-225 was a featured performer at the MosAeroShow at Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, in September 1993.
The An-225 Mriya sits on static display at Zhukovsky on September 1, 1993. It now carries the Ukrainian flag on its tail and is registered UR-82060. 
An An-32P (protivopozharny) modified for fire fighting is used to provide scale for the An-225. 
The main landing gear of the An-225 is composed of seven two-wheel bogies on each side of the fuselage. The four bogies at the rear (to the left in this picture) are steerable.
The rear loading doors have been deleted from the design of the An-225 Mriya. 
The twin nose gear bogies of the An-225 Mriya rise from the runway very early in the take-off roll. 
On a humid day, the low pressure over the wing of the An-225 Mriya creates a cloud that rides the top of the wing. 
This photo appeared in the May 2001 issue of Aviation History Magazine.
You can buy framed prints or greeting cards of this photograph.
Take-off.
Four MiG-25RU Foxbats, a Su-27 and Su-30 of the Test Pilots Team, and some Su-24 Fencers can be seen beyond the An-225 Mriya as it takes off.
The fuselage of the An-225 Mriya has been stretched fifty feet compared to the An-124. 
An-225 taxis along the runway after landing. The cascade thrust reversers are still deployed.
The thrust reversers have been retracted.
UR-82060 catches the afternoon sun after the end of the September 5, 1993 Moscow Airshow at Zhukovsky. It disappeared from public view for the next eight years.
This model of a proposal to launch the unmanned British HoTOL (Horizontal Take-Off and Landing) from the An-225 was photographed on display at the Champlin Fighter Museum at Falcon Airport near Mesa, Arizona in December 1994. 
Find all about the Antonov An-225 Mriya at Wikiverse.org.
Link to Antonov Airlines web site.
Link to Antonov Airlines An-225 page.
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| Boeing 747-400 Jumbo Jet | 1988 | 211ft,05in | 231ft,10in | 5,650 | 833,000 | 4 x 45,000 PW4062 or GE CF6-80C2B1F |
| Antonov An-225 Mryia | 1988 | 290ft,00in | 275ft,07in | 10,280 | 1,300,000 | 6 x 51,590 lb DT-18T |
| Antonov An-124 Ruslan | 1984 | 240ft,00in | 227ft,00in | 6,760 | 890,000 | 4 x 51,590 lb DT-18T |
| Tupolev 160 Blackjack | 1981 | 182ft, 09in | 177ft, 06in | 3,660 | 606,000 | 4 x 50,900 lb NK-321 |
| Lockheed C-5A Galaxy | 1968 | 222ft,08in | 247ft,10in | 6,200 | 769,000 | 4 x 50,000 lb GE TF-39 |
| Boeing 747-100 Jumbo Jet | 1968 | 195ft,08in | 231ft,04in | 5,500 | 850,000 | 4 x 50,000 lb P&W JT9D |
| Antonov An-22 Antheus | 1965 | 211ft,04in | 189ft,07in | 3,713 | 550,000 | 4 x 15,000 shp Kuznetsov NK-12MV |
| North American XB-70A Valkyrie | 1964 | 105ft,00in | 189ft,00in | 6,297 | 530,000 | 6 x 33,000,lb J-93 |
| Boeing B-52 Stratofortress | 1952 | 185ft,00in | 157ft,07in | 4,000 | 450,000 | 8 x 8,000 lb J-57 |
| Convair YB-60 | 1952 | 206ft,05in | 175ft,02in | 5,239 | 410,000 | 8 x 8,000 lb J-57 |
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