February 27, 1965 in the sky up the world's first wide-body transport aircraft an-22 "Antey". At that time the An-22 was the largest transport aircraft in the world. His options struck: takeoff weight - 225 tons, the diameter of the fuselage - 6 meters, the largest in the world screws with a diameter of 6.2 meters. In 1965, the showing of the aircraft on display at Le Bourget has become a worldwide sensation. On account of An-22 - 41 world record.
the Creation of this machine has become an important event in the development of not only the GSC Antonov, but throughout the world of aviation.
First flight "Anthea" made the crew: commander Yuri kurlin, the second pilot Vladimir Tersky, Navigator Peter cat, flight engineer Vladimir Vorotnikov, bestelectric Michael Rachenko, radio operator Nikolay Drobyshev, senior test engineer Viktor Shatalov, engineer-experimentalist Alexander Eskin.
27 February became the day of memory of the first commander of crew of the An-22, the legends of world aviation, test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Vladimirovich Curlin, who passed away two years ago.
currently, the "Antey" continues to work. Today, February 27, 2020, the aircraft an-22 (tail number UR-09307), part of ATP's fleet of ANTONOV company, took off from the airport "Kyiv-Antonov-2" in Leipzig, Germany, to perform commercial flight.
