China Plans Airlifters Like C-5 Or An-225, China Daily Says

Credit: Avic Y-20: Yan Singming/International Aviation
China plans to develop airlifters comparable with the Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy or even Antonov An-225 Mriya, the China Daily says, giving no time frame. Deliveries of aircraft from the current Avic Y-20 program will begin very soon, the state newspaper says, quoting Zhu Qian, the head of Avic’s...

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