AN-22

UR09307 is the only civil registered aircraft still flying although he’s in maintenace at the moment.

The Russian air force still have some left and are doing some civil charters in the former Soviet Bloc regions.

If you need full details of any of the AN22 aircrfat talh to the guys at http://www.aviatsiya.ru/forums/ they are a font of knowledge for anything Soviet!!!

MYRIA

I think a few more RA- birds are flyable, but only eight should be operational at any given time. The Russian air force had already withdrawn the type by 2000, but they took them into service again by the summer of 2001. The Ivanovo birds should all be withdrawn (a bunch of them were scrapped), but Migalovo still operates it’s An-22s.

Still not seen the current one. One of the few to visit the UK was the one that visited Farnborough in 1988 with a engine for the sick An124

UR09307 is I believe the only one still flying out of that lot?

RA-09328

RA-09344

RA-08829

RA-08832

RA-08834

RA-o8836

UR-09307.*……..these are the only reg’s I can find, the rest appear to have been WFU or B/U.

*saw this one in AMS last year

dave

Don’t forget it’s VERY big, and has a lot of propeller blades (32 of ’em) chopping up large volumes of sky. I’ve seen one flying circuits in Russia in 1996, it was an absolutely great sight. And sound…

It has this magnetic ugly, revolting beauty to it. Elegant but trashy.

Re: AN-22

Originally posted by LN Strike Eagle
Heads up for anyone in the area. Tomorrow morning, an AN-22 will land at Stansted. It’s flying in from RNAS Yeovilton at 8am, carrying a Lynx Helicopter for the Omani Air Force.

Bit late – but the Omani Air Force don’t have Lynx… (The Qatar police used to though) Maybe it was a Royal Navy one en route to Oman?

Flood.

The camouflaged one.

Originally posted by Interflug62M
The aircraft was originally designed to carry the giant Soviet SS20 missile in one piece so had a very specific task to perform. All were built for the Soviet Air Force and operated by their crews, some were painted in Aeroflot colours to ease operations around the globe. As far as I know Aeroflot never owned any of them in the true sense, prior to the end of the Soviet Union.

Allow one of the drunkards from the ever peaceful and highly docile Modern Military board to nitpick…
The main reason for the An-22s development was indeed to haul strategic nuclear missiles from their factories to remote launch pads deep inside Russia. These were not SS-20s as this were relatively small missiles on a mobile launcher, but those huge silo-launched ones. The An-22 would have flown the missiles to the closest airbase, after which massive Mi-12 helicopters would fly the missile to their launch sites. Unfortunately the Mi-12 never made it beyond two prototypes (both survive, one at the Monino museum and one at the Mil plant at Moscow-Panki) so this never got anywhere.

Luckily, the An-22 did enter service as a heavy, long-range transport with the V-TA, the transport branch of the Soviet air force. They operated from three bases: Seshcha (now home to the An-124, very impressive to see some fifteen of them in dispersals), Ivanovo (the training base, now also the home of the A-50 Mainstays or the Il-76-with-radar-saucer) and Tver-Migalovo, formerly known as Kalinin-Migalovo. At the latter base, you can still find the one and only camouflaged An-22 which is looking awfully great. Some other An-22s did fly around with tactical codes (or bort numbers as us military folks like to call ’em), but mostly they wore their SSSR- and later RA- registrations.

Here is one of the coded An-22s, one of the early production machines without the radar-lip above the navigator’s station.

i’d do anything to be the F/E on the AN-22, its gotta be lots of fun
to operate that sweetie.
Camaro.;)

I know what you mean, Mark. I think the Shed is fantastic because it is so good in its particular role, similar to the AN22

Beauty is of course in the eye of the beholder! I love the thing!

STILL UGLY

I did the turnround on one of these lovely machines some time back at STN, it was operated on that day by Air Foyle in place of an expected AN124. The inside reminded me of a submarine, as the cargo deck is not pressurised there are a number of pressure bulkhead doors throughout the aircraft. Entry was via a door on the port side undercarriage blister. She brought STN to a virtual standstill on the morning of dep….the sight and sound was something else. The aircraft was originally designed to carry the giant Soviet SS20 missile in one piece so had a very specific task to perform. All were built for the Soviet Air Force and operated by their crews, some were painted in Aeroflot colours to ease operations around the globe. As far as I know Aeroflot never owned any of them in the true sense, prior to the end of the Soviet Union.

He’s quite a nice beastie when you get to know him!!!:D

that is pure ugly thanks anyhow

that’s because UR09307 is the only airworthy one still around

Looking typical Russian design. This Antonov is owned by Antonov themselves, but I don’t think they are for sale. UR-09307 is the only registration I can find.

remind me again what does the AN 22 look like