Antonov An-24


The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau and manufactured by Kiev, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude Aviation Factories.

Design and development

First flown in 1959, the An-24 was produced in some 1,000 units of various versions; in 2019 there are 109 still in service worldwide, mostly in the CIS and Africa.
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. 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 Kiev-Svyatoshino 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.

Total production

Variants

;An-24
;An-24A
;An-24A
;An-24ALK
;An-24AT
;An-24AT-RD
;An-24AT-U
;An-24B
;An-24D
;An-24LL
;An-24LP
;An-24LR 'Toros'
;An-24LR 'Nit'
;An-24PRT
;An-24PS
;An-24RR
;An-24RT
;An-24RT
' Antonov An-24RV
;An-24RV
;An-24ShT
;An-24T
;An-24T
;An-24T 'Troyanda'
;An-24TV
;An-24USh
;An-24V-I
;An-24V-II
;An-26
;An-30
;An-32
;An-34
;An-50
;Xian Y-7
;MA60
;An-24

Operational history

Operators

Military operators

; : Korean People's Army Air Force - 1
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; : The Afghan Air Force received six from 1975
; : Algerian Air Force
; : People's Air and Air Defence Force of Angola
; : Armenian Air Force
; : Azerbaijan Air Force
; : Bangladesh Air Force

; : Belarus Air Force
; : Bulgaria Air Force
; : Royal Cambodian Air Force
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; : Congolese Air Force
; : Cuban Air Force
;: Czech air force
; : Czechoslovakian Air Force – No longer in service
; : Air Forces of the National People's Army
; : Egyptian Air Force
; : Georgian Air Force
; : Military of Guinea
; : Military of Guinea-Bissau
; : Equatorial Guinea Air Force
; : Hungarian Air Force, none in service, all retired in 1992
; : Iranian Air Force
; : Iraqi Air Force
; : Military of Kazakhstan
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; : Air Force of Mali
; : Moldovan Air Force
; : Mongolian Air Force
; : Military of Mozambique
; : Nicaraguan Air Force
; : Polish Air Force- 6 operated from 1966 to 1977; replaced with An-26
; : Romanian Air Force – the last RoAF An-24 was retired in 2007.
; : Slovak Air Force - the last SAF An-24 was retired in 2006.
; : Somali Air Corps
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; : Sudanese Air Force
; : Syrian Air Force
; : Military of Turkmenistan
; : Military of Uzbekistan
; : Vietnam People's Air Force
; : Yemen Air Force

Civil operators

As of July 2018, 86 An-24s were in airline service.
Following fatal incidents in July 2011 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed the accelerated decommissioning of AN-24s, which resulted in a ban for this type from scheduled flights inside Russia.
Currently, only Motor Sich Airlines runs scheduled passenger services with AN-24 aircraft.
Former civil operators
Civil operators have included:
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UGA – OAO – LO – / Home baseCIS Airline
Arkhangel'sk2nd Arkhangel'sk392ndArkhangel'sk-Vas'kovoAVL Arkhangelsk Airlines
AzerbaijanBaku360th / 1st & 3rd squadronsBaku-BinaAZAL
BelorussianGomel'105th / 1st squadronGomel'Gomelavia
1st Minsk353rdMinsk-Loshitsa Belavia;Minsk-Avia
MogilyovMogilyovMogilyov-Avia
Central RegionsBelgorodBelgorodBelgorod Air Enterprise
BryanskBryanskBravia
Bykovo61stMoscow-BykovoBykovo Avia
IvanovoIvanovo-Yuzhnyy IGAP
KostromaKostromaKostroma Air Enterprise
KurskKurskKurskavia
Ryazan'Ryazan'Ryazan'aviatrans
Tambov169thTambov-DonskoyeAviata
Tula294thTulaTula Air Enterprise
Voronezh243rdVoronezhVoronezhavia
VladimirVladimirVladimir Air Enterprise / Avialeso'okhrana
East SiberianBobaidoBobaidoBobaido Air Enterprise
Chita136th / 1st SquadronChitaChita Avia
Irkutsk134thIrkutsk-1Baikal Airlines
Ust'-IlimskUst'-IlimskUst'-Ilimsk Air Enterprise
Ust'-KutUst'-KutUst'-Kut Air Enterprise
Ulan-Ude138thUlan-Ude / MukhinoBuryatia Airlines
Far EasternSakhalin CAPA / Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk UAD147th / 1st SquadronYuzhno-Sakhalinsk / KhomutvoSakhalinskiye Aviatrassy
1st Khabarovsk289thKhabarovskDalavia Far East Airlines Khabarovsk
KazakhChimkent158thChimkentKazakhstan Airlines;Chimkent-Avia
Gur'yev156thGur'yevKazakhstan Airlines;Atyrau Air Ways
Karaganda14thKaragandaKazakhstan Airlines
Kustanay155thKustanayKazakhstan Airlines
Tselinograd239thTselinogradKazakhstan Airlines;Air Astana
Kirghiz
KomiSyktyvkar366thSyktyvkarKomiavia;Komiinteravia
KrasnoyarskAbakan130thAbakanKhakassia Airlines
LatvianRiga106th / 2nd SquadronRiga-SpilveLatavio
LeningradPskov320th / 2nd SquadronPskov
LithuanianVilnius277th / 4th SquadronVilniusLithuanian Airlines
MagadanAnadyr'Anadyr'-Ugol'nyyChukotavia
Chaunskoye6thChaunskoyeChaunskoye Air Enterprise
1st Magadan185th / Magadan-SokolKolyma-Avia
MoldavianKishinyov407thKishinyovAir Moldova
North CaucasianAstrakhan'110thAstrakhan'-NarimanovoAstrakhan' Airlines
Krasnodar241st/ 3rd SquadronKrasnodarALK Kuban Airlines
Makhachkala111thMakhachkalaDaghestan Airlines
Stavropol'Stavropol'SAAK
TaganrogTaganrogTavia
TajikLeninabad292nd / 2nd SquadronLeninabadTajikistan Airlines
Training Establishments DirectorateKVLUGA KirovogradUkraine State Flight Academy
TurkmenAshkhabad165th / 1st SquadronAshkhabadTurkmenistan Airlines/Akhal
Krasnovodsk360th / 1st SquadronKrasnovodskTurkmenistan Airlines/Khazar
Mary Composite Independent Air SquadronMary
TashauzTashauz
Tyumen'SalekhardSalekhardTyumen' Avia Trans
Surgut358thSurgutSurgut Avia
UkrainianDonetskDonetskDonbass – East Ukrainian Airlines
Kiev86th / 2nd SquadronKiev-ZhulyanyAir Ukraine / Avialinïi Ukraïny
KirovogradKirovograd-KhmelyovoyeAir URGA
L'vov88thL'vovLviv Airlines
Simferopol84thSimferopolAviakompaniya Krym / Crimea AL
VoroshilovgradVoroshilovgrad
UralsIzhevskIzhevskIzhavia
KirovKirovKirov Air Enterprises
MagnitogorskMagnitogorskMagnitogorsk Air Enterprise
1st Perm'Perm'-Bolshoye SavinoPerm Airlines
1st SverdlovskSverdlovsk-Kol'tsovoUral Airlines
UzbekSamarkand163rdrdSamarkandUzbekistan Airways
Tashkent160thTashkent-YuzhnyyUzbekistan Airways
VolgaCheboksaryCheboksaryCheboksary Air Enterprise
CheboksaryNizhnekamsk Independent air SquadronNizhnekamskNizhnekamsk Air Enterprise
Gor'kiyGor'kiy-StriginoNizhegorodskie Airlines
TatarCAPA / 1st Kazan'408thKazan'Tatarstan Airlines
Orenburg195th / 2nd SquadronOrenburg-Tsentral'nyyOrenburg Airlines
Penza396thPenzaPenza Air Enterprise
SaranskSaransk
SaratovSaratov
Ufa415thUfaBAL Bashkirian Airlines
Yoshkar-OlaYoshkar-Ola
West SiberianKemerovo196thKemerovo
KolpashevoKolpashevo
Novosibirsk6thNovosibirsk-Severnyy2nd Novosibirsk Air Enterprise
Tolmachevo448thNovosibirsk-TolmachevoSibir'
Novokuznetsk184thNovokuznetskAerokuznetsk
Omsk365th / 2nd SquadronOmskOmsk-Avia
Tomsk119trhTomskTomsk Avia
YakutianYakutsk271stYakutskSakha Avia
MirnyMirnyAlmazy Rossii – Sakha
GosNII GVF Moscow - Sheremetyevo-1

Accidents

Specifications (An-24B)