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Antonov An-26

Soviet turboprop transport aircraft

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Source revisionSep 14, 2026

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Source-derived summary

The Antonov An-26 is a twin-engined turboprop regional airliner and military transport aircraft, designed and produced in the Soviet Union from 1969 to 1986. It is the third member of the Antonov An-24 family, coming after the An-24 and An-30, while preceding the An-32 and cancelled An-132. The An-26 is still license-produced in China as the modern version of the Xi'an Y-7. Early versions of the Y-7 utilized the An-24 design.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Antonov An-26” is soviet turboprop transport aircraft. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Antonov, An-26 and Soviet, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Antonov, An-26 and Soviet is the immediate research focus.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antonov An-26” 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.