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ANTONOV-2-100 LIFTS RECORD WEIGHT AT TEST FLIGHT AT COMPANY’S BASE IN

Kyiv, , Thursday, 13 April 2017 - The AN-2-100 light , an up-to-date modification of the world's biggest bi-plane, the ANTONOV AN-2, performed a test flight at ANTONOV Company's test base in Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday 11th April 2017.

The AN-2-100, which has a payload of 1500kg, lifted cargo weighing a total 3202kg, which is a new record for such class aircraft, to an altitude of 2700m.

The attempt to set the record was made by a crew of two ANTONOV Company Test Pilots, Sergii Tarasiuk, who piloted the flight and Valerii Yepanchintsev, who co-piloted.

The crew is known for their expedition to the South Pole on the ANTONOV AN-3 aircraft in 2005.

A report on the attempt to set the new record will be sent to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).

Leaders from Ukrainian aircraft industry companies and the United Aircraft Company participated in the event.

The AN-2-100 is intended for passenger, cargo, and mixed cargo- passenger journeys on local routes. It can be operated autonomously at small airfields, in a wide altitude range, under good and adverse climatic and weather conditions.

The main difference between the AN-2-100 and its predecessor is in a power plant with MC-14 engine, designed and produced by the Public Joint Stock Company.

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The advantage of this replacement is the substitution of aviation gasoline with aviation kerosene. The aircraft profitability consequently rises significantly.

The AN-2-100 is further equipped with the AV-17 reversible propeller, instead of the AV-2. The operational empty weight of AN-2-100 is 200kg less than that of the AN-2.

On Thursday, 31st August 2017, the aviation community will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the AN-2's maiden flight.

The AN-2, the world's biggest , was ANTONOV's first airplane.

The new aircraft was named “Henrih Ongirskii” in honour of H.H. Ongirskii (1939-2012), Deputy General Designer of ANTONOV Company, who made a great contribution to the AN-2 and AN-3 development programme.

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The AN-2-100 is intended for passenger, cargo, and mixed cargo- passenger journeys on local routes.

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The attempt to set the record was made by a crew of two ANTONOV Company Test Pilots, Sergii Tarasiuk, who piloted the flight and Valerii Yepanchintsev, who co-piloted.

ABOUT

ANTONOV Airlines specialises in the transport of outsized and project cargo worldwide using its fleet of seven AN-124s with up to 150 tonnes

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PRESS RELEASE payload, its 60-tonne payload AN-22, and its unique 250-tonne payload AN-225, which is the largest aircraft in the world.

More than 28 years after launching as the first company to offer the AN- 124 commercially, ANTONOV Airlines continues to deliver air cargo solutions across the , defence, energy, humanitarian, industrial, automotive, and oil and gas sectors.

ANTONOV Airlines is a division of ANTONOV Company, headquartered in Kiev, Ukraine, and a Ukrainian state-owned enterprise, which designs, develops, produces and maintains the AN freighters.

The UK Office of ANTONOV Airlines is based at Diamond Hangar, .

To find out more visit antonov.com and antonov-airlines.com

For further information Emma Murray Meantime Communications Tel: +44 (0)20 8853 5554 Mob: +44 (0)7711 614 655 [email protected] Visit Meantime Communications

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