Antonov Airlines has delivered a power plant rotor onboard one of its AN-124s from Atlanta, USA to Nagoya, Japan.
The transatlantic trip took three days, including two technical stops in Calgary, Canada and Anchorage, USA. Weighing approximately 53 tonnes, the rotor was transported in a bespoke frame.
It was loaded onto the aircraft using a ramp designed and manufactured by Antonov’s inhouse engineers, in conjunction with an external crane. Once onboard, the technical crew dismantled the ramp and loaded it into the plane to be used again to unload the cargo at its destination.
