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Antonov An-22

Soviet heavy military transport aircraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Antonov An-22 "Antei" is a retired heavy turboprop military transport aircraft developed by the Antonov Design Bureau and produced by the Tashkent State Aircraft Factory in the Soviet Union. It was the first wide-body transport aircraft and has continued to possess the largest cargo deck for any turboprop-powered aircraft in the world into the twenty-first century.

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“Antonov An-22” enters the record as soviet heavy military transport aircraft. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Antonov, An-22 and Soviet can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 57-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Antonov, An-22 and Soviet.
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This entry incorporates text from “Antonov An-22” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.