The Antonov An-24 (Russian/Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-24) (NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau[1] and manufactured by Kyiv, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude Aviation Factories.
An-24 | |
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General information | |
Type | Transport aircraft / Turboprop Regional airliner |
National origin | Soviet Union |
Manufacturer | Antonov |
Status | In limited service |
Primary users | UTair Cargo |
Number built | 1,388 (including the Chinese Y-7)[1] |
History | |
Manufactured | 1959–1979 |
Introduction date | 1962 |
First flight | 29 October 1959[1] |
Variants | Antonov An-26 Antonov An-30 Antonov An-32 |
Developed into | Xian Y-7 |
First flown in 1959, the An-24 was produced in some 1,000 units of various versions; in 2023 there are 93 still in service worldwide, mostly in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Africa.[2]
It was designed to replace the veteran piston Ilyushin Il-14 transport on short to medium haul trips, optimised for operating from rough strips and unprepared airports in remote locations.[3] The high-wing layout protects engines and blades from debris, the power-to-weight ratio is higher than that of many comparable aircraft and the machine is rugged, requiring minimal ground support equipment.
Due to its rugged airframe and good performance, the An-24 was adapted to perform many secondary missions such as ice reconnaissance and engine/propeller test-bed, as well as further development to produce the An-26 tactical transport, An-30 photo-mapping/survey aircraft and An-32 tactical transport with more powerful engines. Various projects were envisaged such as a four jet short/medium haul airliner and various iterations of powerplant.
The main production line was at the Kyiv-Svyatoshino (later renamed "Aviant") aircraft production plant which built 985, with 180 built at Ulan Ude and a further 197 An-24T tactical transport/freighters at Irkutsk. Production in the USSR was shut down by 1978.
Production continues at China's Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation which makes licensed, reverse-engineered and redesigned aircraft as the Xian Y-7, and its derivatives. Manufacture of the Y-7, in civil form, has now been supplanted by the MA60 derivative with western engines and avionics, to improve performance and economy, and widen the export appeal.
The aircraft introduced in Mongolia was initially planned to be used by the air force, but was eventually handed over to a private airline company for use, and some were later used in research facilities. Since then, as the aircraft has deteriorated, it has been stored in Ulaanbaatar.[4]
Total Production (Not including Chinese Y-7)[5] | 1979 | 1978 | 1977 | 1976 | 1975 | 1974 | 1973 | 1972 | 1971 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1965 | 1964 | 1963 | 1962 | 1961 | 1960 | 1959 |
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1285 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 25 | 45 | 88 | 83 | 82 | 91 | 135 | 136 | 158 | 166 | 112 | 62 | 44 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
As of July 2018, 86 An-24s were in airline service.[35]
Following fatal incidents in July 2011 Russian President (now Prime Minister) Dmitry Medvedev proposed the accelerated decommissioning of An-24s,[36] which resulted in a ban for this type from scheduled flights inside Russia.[37] However, later the ban was cancelled and, as of 2023, An-24 are still in limited commercial service in Russia.
Civil operators have included:
UGA – (Oopravleniye Grazhdahnskoy Aviahtsii - Civil Aviation Directorate) |
OAO – (Otdel'nyy Aviaotryad – independent flight detachment) | LO – (Lyotnyy Otryad – flight squad) / (Aviaeskadril'ya – squadrons) | Home base | CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) Airline |
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Arkhangel'sk | 2nd Arkhangel'sk | 392nd | Arkhangel'sk-Vas'kovo | AVL Arkhangelsk Airlines |
Azerbaijan | Baku | 360th / 1st & 3rd squadrons | Baku-Bina | AZAL (no An-24s) |
Belorussian | Gomel' | 105th / 1st squadron | Gomel' | Gomelavia |
1st Minsk | 353rd | Minsk-Loshitsa (Minsk-1) | Belavia;Minsk-Avia | |
Mogilyov | Mogilyov | Mogilyov-Avia | ||
Central Regions | Belgorod | Belgorod | Belgorod Air Enterprise (no An-24s) | |
Bryansk | Bryansk | Bravia (Bryansk-Avia) | ||
Bykovo | 61st | Moscow-Bykovo | Bykovo Avia | |
Ivanovo | Ivanovo-Yuzhnyy (Zhukovka) | IGAP (Ivanovo State Air Enterprise) | ||
Kostroma | Kostroma | Kostroma Air Enterprise | ||
Kursk | Kursk | Kurskavia | ||
Ryazan' | Ryazan' | Ryazan'aviatrans | ||
Tambov | 169th | Tambov-Donskoye | Aviata (Avalinii Tambova) | |
Tula | 294th | Tula | Tula Air Enterprise | |
Voronezh | 243rd | Voronezh | Voronezhavia | |
Vladimir | Vladimir | Vladimir Air Enterprise / Avialeso'okhrana | ||
East Siberian | Bobaido | Bobaido | Bobaido Air Enterprise | |
Chita | 136th / 1st Squadron | Chita | Chita Avia | |
Irkutsk | 134th | Irkutsk-1 | Baikal Airlines | |
Ust'-Ilimsk | Ust'-Ilimsk | Ust'-Ilimsk Air Enterprise | ||
Ust'-Kut | Ust'-Kut | Ust'-Kut Air Enterprise | ||
Ulan-Ude | 138th | Ulan-Ude / Mukhino | Buryatia Airlines | |
Far Eastern | Sakhalin CAPA / Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk UAD | 147th / 1st Squadron | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk / Khomutvo | Sakhalinskiye Aviatrassy |
1st Khabarovsk | 289th | Khabarovsk | Dalavia Far East Airlines Khabarovsk | |
Kazakh | Chimkent | 158th | Chimkent | Kazakhstan Airlines;Chimkent-Avia |
Gur'yev | 156th | Gur'yev | Kazakhstan Airlines;Atyrau Air Ways | |
Karaganda | 14th | Karaganda | Kazakhstan Airlines | |
Kustanay | 155th | Kustanay | Kazakhstan Airlines | |
Tselinograd | 239th | Tselinograd | Kazakhstan Airlines;Air Astana | |
Kirghiz | (dissolved by 1987) | |||
Komi | Syktyvkar | 366th | Syktyvkar | Komiavia;Komiinteravia |
Krasnoyarsk | Abakan | 130th | Abakan | Khakassia Airlines (Abakan A.E.) |
Latvian | Riga | 106th / 2nd Squadron | Riga-Spilve | Latavio |
Leningrad | Pskov | 320th / 2nd Squadron | Pskov | |
Lithuanian | Vilnius | 277th / 4th Squadron | Vilnius | Lithuanian Airlines |
Magadan | Anadyr' | Anadyr'-Ugol'nyy | Chukotavia | |
Chaunskoye | 6th | Chaunskoye | Chaunskoye Air Enterprise | |
1st Magadan | 185th / (1st or 3rd Squadron) | Magadan-Sokol | Kolyma-Avia | |
Moldavian | Kishinyov | 407th | Kishinyov | Air Moldova |
North Caucasian | Astrakhan' | 110th | Astrakhan'-Narimanovo | Astrakhan' Airlines |
Krasnodar | 241st/ 3rd Squadron | Krasnodar | ALK Kuban Airlines | |
Makhachkala | 111th | Makhachkala | Daghestan Airlines | |
Stavropol' | Stavropol' | SAAK (Stavropol' Joint Stock AL) | ||
Taganrog | Taganrog | Tavia | ||
Tajik | Leninabad | 292nd / 2nd Squadron | Leninabad | Tajikistan Airlines |
Training Establishments Directorate | KVLUGA (Kirovograd Civil Aviation Higher Flying School) | Kirovograd | Ukraine State Flight Academy | |
Turkmen | Ashkhabad | 165th / 1st Squadron | Ashkhabad | Turkmenistan Airlines/Akhal |
Krasnovodsk | 360th / 1st Squadron | Krasnovodsk | Turkmenistan Airlines/Khazar | |
Mary Composite Independent Air Squadron | Mary | |||
Tashauz | Tashauz | |||
Tyumen' | Salekhard | Salekhard | Tyumen' Avia Trans | |
Surgut | 358th | Surgut | Surgut Avia | |
Ukrainian | Donetsk | Donetsk | Donbas – East Ukrainian Airlines | |
Kyiv | 86th / 2nd Squadron | Kyiv-Zhulyany | Air Ukraine / Avialinïi Ukraïny | |
Kirovograd | Kirovograd-Khmelyovoye | Air URGA | ||
L'vov | 88th | L'vov | Lviv Airlines | |
Simferopol | 84th | Simferopol | Aviakompaniya Krym / Crimea AL | |
Voroshilovgrad | Voroshilovgrad | |||
Urals | Izhevsk | Izhevsk | Izhavia | |
Kirov | Kirov | Kirov Air Enterprises (no An-24s) | ||
Magnitogorsk | Magnitogorsk | Magnitogorsk Air Enterprise | ||
1st Perm' | Perm'-Bolshoye Savino | Perm Airlines | ||
1st Sverdlovsk | Sverdlovsk-Kol'tsovo | Ural Airlines [Yekaterinburg] | ||
Uzbek | Samarkand | 163rd | Samarkand | Uzbekistan Airways |
Tashkent | 160th | Tashkent-Yuzhnyy | Uzbekistan Airways | |
Volga | Cheboksary | Cheboksary | Cheboksary Air Enterprise | |
Cheboksary | Nizhnekamsk Independent air Squadron | Nizhnekamsk | Nizhnekamsk Air Enterprise | |
Gor'kiy | Gor'kiy-Strigino | Nizhegorodskie Airlines (sic) | ||
TatarCAPA / 1st Kazan' | 408th | Kazan' | Tatarstan Airlines | |
Orenburg | 195th / 2nd Squadron | Orenburg-Tsentral'nyy | Orenburg Airlines | |
Penza | 396th | Penza | Penza Air Enterprise | |
Saransk | Saransk | |||
Saratov | Saratov | |||
Ufa | 415th | Ufa | BAL Bashkirian Airlines | |
Yoshkar-Ola | Yoshkar-Ola | |||
West Siberian | Kemerovo | 196th | Kemerovo | |
Kolpashevo | Kolpashevo | |||
Novosibirsk | 6th(?) | Novosibirsk-Severnyy | 2nd Novosibirsk Air Enterprise | |
Tolmachevo | 448th | Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo | Sibir' | |
Novokuznetsk | 184th | Novokuznetsk | Aerokuznetsk | |
Omsk | 365th / 2nd Squadron | Omsk | Omsk-Avia | |
Tomsk | 119trh | Tomsk | Tomsk Avia | |
Yakutian | Yakutsk | 271st | Yakutsk | Sakha Avia |
Mirny | Mirny | Almazy Rossii – Sakha (Alrosa) | ||
GosNII GVF ("state scientific test institute for civil air fleet") | Moscow - Sheremetyevo-1 |
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1976–77[39]
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