World's biggest jet lands at Robin Hood Airport
23.12.06
Robin Hood Airport celebrated the arrival of the largest jet plane to ever use the airport yesterday. The giant Antonov plane was loaded with a gigantic 65-tonne oil well cap which is known as a Christmas tree by oil workers.
The Ukranian built Antonov An-124-100 is famous in the aviation industry for setting 30 world records, including lifting 171 tonnes of cargo to a height of 10,750 metres. The cargo, which is being carried by Volga-Dnepr airlines, is eventually bound for Houston, Texas, to be used in oil fields there.
Stuart Sinclair, group airfreight development manager for Peel Airports, said: 'Ad-hoc flying like this demonstrates how Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield is quickly becoming a serious contender in the competitive air freight market and specialist heavy-lift sector.'
