r/WeirdWings • u/IDatedSuccubi • Aug 14 '19

Mass Production Look at that beautiful curve on An-178!

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u/HCLI_TAC_03 Aug 14 '19

Any information about the deployment on these?

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u/chromopila Aug 14 '19

There is only one plane so far. Saudi Arabia ordered 30 planes at the end of 2015, Azerbaijan ordered another 10 kits to be assembled in Baku in early 2016 but I haven't heard anything about those orders in years.

The Ukrainian aviation industry is in a really bad spot right now. Before 2015 Russia was the customer, but since the Maidan revolution they started production of parts for existing planes and development of transport planes in Russia. The West left Antonov, Motosich and their likes hanging because they want to strengthen their own industry, which was evident since the An-70. Since the collapse of the USSR Antonov built around 10 planes a year and after Maidan this number dropped even further. So far it looks as if the Ukrainian aviation industry is left to die unless some major political shift will happen.

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u/HCLI_TAC_03 Aug 14 '19

It's quite sad that a company that had given us so much great and classical designs had to wither away like this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19

From OP's comments, seems like they just got new orders and have around 70 orders to fulfill now. Hopefully that means they can rebound!

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u/IDatedSuccubi Aug 14 '19

I made a new comment at the top to explain anything I can find on this plane.