Antonov, trading as the Antonov Company and formerly the Antonov Design Bureau, is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company named for its chief designer Oleg Antonov. Its particular expertise lies in very large aeroplanes and aeroplanes that use unprepared runways, and aircraft with the model prefix An have been built to a total of roughly 22,000, with thousands still flying in the former Soviet Union and in developing countries. Originally established in Novosibirsk, the company moved to Kiev in 1952. It is a state-owned commercial company that was transferred to Ukroboronprom in 2015.
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State-owned company
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31 May 1946
Operates In: Aerospace Industry, Infobox: industry
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In Group: Aerospace and Defense, Lead section
Antonov (d/b/a Antonov Company, formerly the Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex named after Antonov or Antonov ASTC, and earlier the Antonov Design Bureau, for its chief designer, Oleg Antonov) is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company.
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