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This is one of the iconic -124 freighters originally designed for the Soviet military. Roughly 50 of those have been built. After the collapse of the Soviet Union quite a few of the planes have been used in the commercial charter business. This one, operated by Antonov Airlines flew cargo for the German military prior to the withdrawal from . I saw it at airport in spring 2021. A totally different time, it seems. In the meantime Russia has attacked Ukraine, including an eventually unsuccessful attempt to seize the Airport of Hostomel where Antonov was based. The huge -225, the bigger sister of the was destroyed. The Ukrainian -125, though, seem to be still in business. They occasionally pop up on the flight tracker app of your choice hauling cargo all over the planet.

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