Antonov Company, formerly the Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex named after Antonov, and earlier the Antonov Design Bureau, for its chief designer, Oleg Antonov, is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company. Antonov's particular expertise is in the fields of very large aeroplanes and aeroplanes using unprepared runways. Antonov has built a total of approximately 22,000 aircraft, and thousands of its planes are operating in the former Soviet Union and in developing countries.
Antonov An-2, mass-produced Soviet utility aeroplane.
An-12, Cold War-era tactical transport, in flight
47-year-old An-12 still in operational condition in 2011
Antonov An-24, the Soviet Union's most common regional airliner
Oleg Antonov (aircraft designer)
Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov was a Soviet aeroplane designer, and the founder of the Antonov Design Bureau in Kyiv, Ukraine, named in his honour. Antonov designed a number of Soviet aeroplanes and numerous gliders for both civilian and military use.
Antonov in the 1970s
Antonov An-2
An-124-100 Ruslan civil certificated version of the strategic airlifter
Antonov An-2