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Antonov aircraft
Antonov is the Ukrainian aircraft maker that grew from the design bureau Oleg Antonov began to lead in May 1946 in Novosibirsk; its first airplane became the AN-2 biplane, built in series at the Kyiv aviation plant. Its designs are known as AN airplanes and run from the AN-24 and AN-26 transports to the giant AN-124 Ruslan, and they were built at many plants across the Soviet Union and in Poland and China. The company also runs Antonov Airlines. This site lists the AN-12, a four-engine turboprop freighter.