AN-140 Regional Turboprop Aircraft Family

Aircrafts of An-140 family are designed for passenger and passenger-cargo transportation. Baseline aircraft is envisaged for transportation of 52 passengers.

Operational features:

An-140 family are high wing monoplane aircrafts with two turbo propelled engines ТВ3-117ВМА-СБМ1 mounted on wing. The volumes of baggage-cargo compartments of An-140 passenger aircrafts exceed by 1,3-1,5 times those of other aircrafts of the same rating. The front part of passenger cabin can be converted into cargo transporting facility for pallet transportation. Due to this the loading door is arranged on right board of fuselage, at the same time floor is improved and equipped with relevant detachable accessories. Aircraft is capable to operate from unpaved, peas, iced and snow covered runaways owing to its cross-surface chassis with lowpressure tyres and high mounted engines, which excludes damage of propellers and engine air intakes by extraneous objects during take-off and landing.

In 2000 An-140 and its modified model An-140-100 got type certificates issued by Aviation Register ofInterstate Aviation Committee and State Aviation Administration of Ukraine. At present air operators of Ukraine, Russia and Iran exploit An-140 aircrafts.

An-140-100 performance:

Production: An-140 is manufactured by Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacture Enterprise (Ukraine),
CJSC “Aviacor – Samara Aircraft Plant” (Russian Federation) and HESA plant (Esfahan, Iran).