.Forward, David C: Antonov's Dream Machine, p. 23. Airways magazine, June 2004Spaeth, Andreas: When size matters, p. 29. Air International magazine, December 2009Gordon, Yefim; Dmitriy and Sergey Komissarov: "The Six-Engined Dream", page 76. Antonov's Heavy Transports: The An-22, An-124/225 and An-70. Midland, 2004. ISBN 1-85780-182-2. Both the earlier and later takeoff weights establish the An-225 as the world's heaviest aircraft, being heavier than the double-deck Airbus A380 even though Airbus plans to pass the An-225's maximum landing weight with for the A380. The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter has a bigger cargo hold at 1,840m3 (65,000 cubic feet).""Flight Test Program is under way for 747 Large Cargo Freighter." Boeing, November 2006. Retrieved: 29 September 2012. The Hughes H-4 Hercules, known as the "Spruce Goose", had a greater wingspan and a greater overall height, but was 20% shorter, and due to the materials used in its construction, also lighter. In addition, the Spruce Goose only flew once, making the An-225 the largest aircraft in the world to fly multiple times. The pressurized cargo hold is 1,300m3 in volume; 6.4m wide, 4.4m high, and 43.35m long"AN-225 Mriya" GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved: 6 September 2012."Antonov An 225 " Air Charter Service. Retrieved: 6 September 2012. – longer than the first flight of the Wright Flyer."Milestones of Flight – 1903 Wright Flyer" – Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum"100 Years Ago, the Dream of Icarus Became Reality." FAI NEWS, December 17, 2003. Retrieved: January 5, 2007.Lindberg, Mark. "Century of Flight." Wings of History Museum, 2003. Retrieved: August 27, 2011. ပျံသန်းမှုရာဇဝင် Antonov An-225 အား ၂၀၀၆ ခုနှစ်တွင် မန်ချက်စတာလေဆိပ်တွင်တွေ့မြင်ရပုံ ၁၉၇၀ နှောင်းပိုင်းတွင် In the late 1970s, efforts were begun by the Soviet government to generate revenue from its military assets. In 1989, a holding company was set up by the Antonov Design Bureau as a heavy airlift shipping corporation under the name "Antonov Airlines", based in Kiev, Ukraine and operating from London Luton Airport in partnership with Air Foyle HeavyLift. As the Soviet space program was in its last years, the An-225 was employed as the prime method of transporting the Buran Shuttle. The company initiated operations with a fleet of four An-124-100s and three Antonov An-12s, but by the late 1990s a need for aircraft larger than the An-124 became apparent. In response, the original An-225 was re-engined, modified for heavy cargo transport, and placed back in service under the management of Antonov Airlines. left|Antonov An-225 အား ၂၀၁၀ ခုနှစ်တွင် တွေ့ရပုံ The An-225 has been contracted by the Canadian and U.S. governments to transport military supplies to the Middle East in support of Coalition forces. In November 2004, FAI placed the An-225 in the Guinness Book of Records for its 240 records. An example of the cost of shipping cargo by An-225 was over 2 million DKK (approx. €266,000) for flying a chimney duct from Denmark to Kazakhstan in 2008.Steelcon News . steelcon.com. Retrieved: 13 June 2010. On 11 August 2009, the heaviest single cargo item ever sent via air freight was loaded onto the Antonov 225. At long and wide, the consignment–a generator for a gas power plant in Armenia and its loading frame–weighed in at a record .Cargo manifest picture Air Cargo News 13 November 2009. Retrieved: 30 May 2012.Ukraine's An-225 aircraft sets new record for heaviest single cargo item transported by air, Eye for Transport, 18 August 2009. Also during 2009, the An-225 was painted in a new blue and yellow paint scheme, after Antonov ceased cooperation with AirFoyle and partnered with Volga-Dnepr in 2006.Ingram, Frederick C. Volga-Dnepr Group answers.com. Retrieved: 24 July 2010. ၂၀၁၀၊ ဇွန် ၁၁ တွင် An-225 ကမ္ဘာ့အရှည်ဆုံးကုန်စည်ကိုသယ်ဆောင်ခဲ့သည်။