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4/24/2007 - MOFFETT AIR FIELD, Calif. (AFNEWS) -- Air National Guardsmen here worked with an aircraft that was vastly different from the MC-130P Combat Shadow tankers, HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopters and other Air Force aircraft they are accustomed to. Airmen from the 129th Rescue Wing were deploying to Afghanistan and needed aircraft to transport HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopters. Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom have kept C-17 Globemaster III and C-5 Galaxy aircraft extremely busy, and the high operations tempo of these aircraft led to the scheduling of contracted cargo airlift, said Senior Master Sgt. Anthony Przymus, the...

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has signed an agreement with Aviastar SP to acquire five new AN-124-100M-150 freighter aircraft, as part of the AN-124-100 Production Recovery Project. Deliveries of the new 150 tonne capacity aircraft will begin in 2008. (8/25/2005) "The AN-124-100 'Ruslan' is a unique aircraft," said Alexey Isaikin, Aviastar SP chairman & president of Volga-Dnepr Group. "It is in such high demand in the global air cargo market that we are doing our best to relaunch serial production of the aircraft at the Aviastar aviation plant in Ulyanovsk," The AN-124-100Ì-150 is an operationally improved version of the AN-124 outsize and...