On August 30, 2016, ANTONOV Company included into Ukroboronprom SC and Aerospace Industry Corporation of China (AICC) signed Cooperation agreement on the AN−225 programme. In such way, the parties expressed their intensions as for long−term cooperation. The first stage of this interaction consists in construction of the second modernized AN−225 Mriya at ANTONOV Company and delivery of this aircraft to AICC. The second stage – organization of the joint series production of the AN−225 in China under licence of ANTONOV Company.   

Both stages will be realized in accordance with proper contracts.  

 

 

Photo: fuselage of the second АN−225 at ANTONOV Company’s production facility

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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