Antonov An-24

Infobox Aircraft
name= An-24
subtemplate= Infobox Antonov Turboprop Twins
type= Transport aircraft
manufacturer= Antonov


caption= Antonov An-24 at the Uzhhorod, Ukraine airport.
designer=
first flight= 29 October 1959
introduced= 1962
retired=
status=Active service
primary user= Aeroflot
more users= Soviet Air Force
PLA Air Force
produced=1959-1979
number built=1,367 (including the Chinese Y-7)
unit cost=
variants with their own articles= Antonov An-26 Antonov An-30

The Antonov An-24 (NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport manufactured in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau.

Development

It was first flown in 1959. Over 1,000 examples were built and 880 are still in service worldwide, mostly in the CIS and Africa. As of August 2006 a total of 448 Antonov An-24 aircraft were in airline service.Flight International, 3-9 October 2006]

It was designed to replace veteran piston Il-14 transport on short to medium haul trips. The design of the aircraft was optimised for operating from rough strips and unprepared airports in remote locations. The high-wing layout protects engines and blades from debris, and the power-to-weight ratio is higher than that of many comparable aircraft. The machine is rugged and does not require sophisticated ground equipment for maintenance.

The prototype build and the main production line was at Kiev-Svyetoshoni which built 985 and 180 were built at Ulan Ude. A further production line at Irkutsk built 197 freighter variants. China's Xian Aircraft Manufacturing Company makes copies of the An-24 as the Yunshuji Y-7. Production continues in China, though production in Ukraine was shut down in 1978.

Variants and design stages

* An-24: : Original design. Twin-engined 44-seat transport aircraft.
* An-24B: Freight transport version.
* An-24T: Freight transport version.
* An-24P: : Firebomber or fire-fighting version.
* An-24V : 50-seat short-range transport version, powered by two 2,550-ehp (1902-ekW) Ivchenko AI-24A turboprop engines.
* An-24V Series II : 50-seat mixed passenger, cargo and freight version.
* An-24RT : Similar to the AN-24T, fitted with an anxiliary turbojet engine.
* An-24RV : Turbojet boosted version. Similar to the An-24V, but fitted with a 1,985-lb (900-kg) thrust auxiliary turbojet engine.
* Xian Y-7 : Chinese-built version - see also Xian MA60
* Y-7-100 : Improved version with redesigned cockpit and cabin, also fitted with winglets.
* Y-7-200 : Fitted with new avionics, winglets are deleted.
* Y-7-200A : Powered by two Pratt & Whitney PW127C turboprop engines.
* Y-7-200B : Built for the Chinese domestic market.

Operators

Military

; AFG: The Afghan Air Force received six from 1975.; DZA: Algerian Air Force; ANG: People's Air and Air Defence Force of Angola; ARM: Armenian Air Force; AZE: Azerbaijan Air Force; BGD: Bangladeshi Air Force, none in service, all retired; BLR: Armed Forces of Belarus; BUL: Military of Bulgaria; CAM: Military of Cambodia; CHN: People's Liberation Army Air Force; as Y-7; COG: Congolese Air Force; CUB: Military of Cuba; CZE: Czech air force (before 2005); DDR: Luftstreitkräfte der NVA; EGY: Egyptian Air Force; GEO: Georgian Air Force; GUI: Military of Guinea; GNB: Military of Guinea-Bissau; HUN: Hungarian Air Force; IRI: Iranian Air Force; IRQ: Iraqi Air Force; KAZ: Military of Kazakhstan; LAO: Military of Laos; MLI: Military of Mali; MNG: Military of Mongolia; PRK: Korean People's Army Air Force; POL: Polish Air Force; ROU: Romanian Air Force-the last An-24 of the RoAF was retired in 2007; RUS: Russian Air Force; SVK: Military of Slovakia last one retired in 2006; SOM: Somali Air Corps; SUD: Sudanese Air Force; SYR: Syrian Air Force; UKR: Ukrainian Air Force; USSR: Soviet Air Force and Soviet Naval Aviation; UZB: Military of Uzbekistan; VIE: Vietnam People's Air Force; YEM: Military of Yemen

Civil operators

Major operators of some of the 448 Antonov An-24 aircraft still in airline service at August 2006 include: China Southern Airlines (11), Air Urga (10), ARP 410 Airlines (10), Scat Air (20), Turkmenistan Airlines (22), Ukraine National Airlines (12), Novosibirsk Air Enterprise (9), Belavia (9), Air Koryo (8) Aeroflot (6), UTair (17), Uzbekistan Airways (11), Yakutia Airlines (17) and Cubana de Aviación (14). Some 112 other airlines also operate smaller numbers of the type.

Civil operators have included:
Aeroflot, Aerosvit, Air Astana, Air Guinee, Air Mali, Ariana Afghan Airlines, Balkan Bulgarian, CAAC, Cubana, Egyptair, Interflug, Iraqi Airways, Lebanese Air Transport, Lina Congo, LOT Polish Airlines, Misrair (Egyptair), Mosphil Aero (Philippines), Pan African Air Service, Kyrgyzstan, President Airlines, PMTair, Royal Khmer Airlines, Tarom, Uzbekistan Airways, Lionair

Accident summary

As of 2004

* Hull-loss accidents: 109 with a total of 1673 fatalities
* Other occurrences: 11 with a total of 59 fatalities
* Hijackings: 33 with a total of 4 fatalities

Recent accidents

"(See also: 2006 Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash)"

* On January 19, 2006, a Slovak An-24 military transport with 43 persons on board (of which 28 were soldiers) crashed in Hungary, only 3 km from the Slovak border. Only one person survived, and 42 were reported dead. The plane was carrying Slovak KFOR forces that had been serving in Kosovo for half a year. [cite news
url=http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2006/01/19/455287.html
accessdate=2006-06-30
title=Slovakisk militærfly styrtet
date=2006-01-19
last=Nærland
first=Mina Hauge
publisher=DB Medialab
work=Dagbladet.no
language=Norwegian]

"(See also: PMTair Flight U4 241)"
* On June 25, 2007, a Cambodian PMTair An-24 commercial flight with 16 passengers and six crew on board crashed in mountains 130km south of the capital Phnom Penh. The flight was enroute from Siem Reap, near the historic Angkor Wat temples, to the coastal town of Sihanoukville. [cite news
url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0625/cambodia.html?rss
accessdate=2007-06-24
title=Angkor Wat tourists in plane crash
date=2007-06-24
last=RTÉ News
first=Ireland
publisher=Radio Telefís Éireann
work=RTE.ie] [cite news
url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/25/cambodia.plane.ap/index.html
accessdate=2007-06-25
title= Tourists missing as plane crashes
date=2007-06-25
last=CNN International
publisher=Associated Press]

pecifications (An-24)

aircraft specifications
ref=Airliners.net [cite airliners.net|url=http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=37|title=The Antonov An-24/26/30/32 & Xian Y-7|accessdate=2006-06-30]

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crew=3-4: 2 pilots, 1 flight engineer, (optional) 1 radio operator
capacity=52 passengers
payload main=5,500 kg
payload alt=12,000 lb
length main=23.53 m
length alt=77 ft 3 in
span main=29.20 m
span alt=95 ft 10 in
height main=8.32 m
height alt=27 ft 4 in
area main=75.0 m²
area alt=807 ft²
airfoil=
empty weight main=13,300 kg
empty weight alt=29,300 lb
loaded weight main=
loaded weight alt=
max takeoff weight main=21,000 kg
max takeoff weight alt=46,000 lb
engine (prop)=Ivchenko AI-24A
type of prop=turboprops
number of props=2
power main=2,820 ehp
power alt=2,100 kW
cruise speed main=450 km/h
cruise speed alt=240 knots, 280 mph
max speed main=500 km/h
max speed alt=270 knots, 310 mph
never exceed speed main=
never exceed speed alt=
stall speed main=
stall speed alt=
range main=
** With maximum payload: 550 km
range alt=300 nm, 340 mi)
** With maximum fuel: 2,400 km (1,300 nm, 1,500 mi
ceiling main= 4,000 to 6,000 m
ceiling alt= 13,000 to 19,700 ft
climb rate main=
climb rate alt=
loading main=
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power/mass main=
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ee also

aircontent
related=
* Antonov An-26
* Antonov An-30
* Xian Y-7
* Xian MA60
similar aircraft=
* Fokker F27
* Alenia G.222
lists=
* List of airliners
* List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
see also=

References

*en icon [http://www.aviation.ru/An/ Aviation.ru]
*en icon [http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=37 Airliners.net]
*no icon [http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=301015 VG.no]

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