The new version of ‘Mriya’ is expected to cost at least €500 million.
State-run Ukroboronprom, the parent company of Antonov, initially estimated that repairing the aircraft would take more than five years and cost more than $3 billion. After professional evaluation, Antonov claimed that around 30 percent of the original plane's parts may be utilized to construct a new aircraft.On December 21, 1988, the AN-225 conducted its maiden voyage from the Svyatoshyn manufacturing airfield. Oleksandr Galunenko oversaw the flight crew that piloted the aircraft.
A small space shuttle with a fuel tank would serve as the second stage of the reusable aerospace transport system , which was also intended to use the AN-225 as a flying space launch site. Mriya can transport extremely heavy or large freight anywhere in the world by either carrying it inside the fuselage or on external depots.There were two AN-225 aircraft made. One of the planes has finished construction.
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