A while ago I became aware of the size of the AN-22. Its a VERY large propliner. I don't know of an example in the USA. I would like to see one in the contintal USA so I sent an inquiry out to learn if one might be available for a museum in the states. Lo and behold I've just recieved an answer from the Antonov Design Bureau advising me they have one which will complete its service life in about a year and would be available to a museum. It seems they have an arbitrary service life of so many hours. Does anyone know of an air museum(preferably on the west coast)
that might be interested? To give perspective to the size, a C-130 would just fit under one wing.
I can forward their email to anyone who is interested. There were about 60 examples built. About 30 are still in service. They are being scrapped as their time expires. I think there may be two in Europe in museums.
Lee McKinney

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