An-148 Antonov ANTK

General Information
Type	An-148
Function	Regional passenger
Year	2004
Crew	?
Powerplant (2)
Type	?
Power	?
Size
Length	?m
Height	?m
Wingspan	?m
Wing area	?m²
Weights and loads
Empty	?kg
Loaded	?kg
Wing Load (kg/m²)	?
Power load (kg/hp)	?
Trust to Weight	?
Speed
Cruising	850km/h
Landing	?km/h
Roll
Landing	?m
Takeoff	?m
Range (km)
Practical	5000 to 7000
Ceiling
Ceiling	?m
Climb
1000m	?min
Payload
Fuel	?kg
Cargo	?kg
Cabin size LxWxH	?m³
Seats	60 to 80

Project of new regional jet was announced in September 2001.

First flight is scheduled for year 2004. Construction schedule is already signed, and some manufacturing assignments are already done. For example, the wing assembly (as the most complicated part) will take place at Kharkov aviation works.

Major obstacle to this project is poor (near death) conditions of aviation market in both Russia and Ukraina. Developers hope that creation of leasing companies may help to re-start aviation industry.

Some experts consider An-148 "a PR project". Despite good projected performance, An-148 is not a major necessity for the market, but can help the Antonov ANTK to prevent leak of the state budget R&D funds to the "lesser" design bureaus located at the major manufacturing plants.

Predecessors	Modifications
?	?

References
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Links
Cooperation between Kiev and Ulan-Ude An-148 is under construction at Ukraina Ukraina started development of new passenger aircraft An-148 An-148: "winged PR" by Antonov ANTK	Ukraina is 2 years ahead of USA and Russia in construction of new regional airplane Ukraina will create new passenger aircraft prior to 2004 An-148 Cooperation between Ukrainian and Russian aircraft manufacturers (mirror of previous article)