Antonov An-140

The Antonov An-140 is a turboprop regional airliner designed by the Ukrainian Antonov ASTC bureau as a successor to the An-24, with greater cargo capacity and the ability to use unprepared airstrips. It first flew on 17 September 1997. The 52-passenger aircraft was built on the main production line in Kharkiv by KHDABP, in Samara by Aviakor, and assembled under licence by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company as the IrAn-140. Kharkiv production ended in 2005, and the line in Isfahan ran from 2000 to 2015 using Ukrainian and Iranian components. After the Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crash, the Civil Aviation Organisation of Iran banned An-140 operations and grounded the remaining Iranian-registered aircraft. Since Ukraine stopped cooperating with Russia on aircraft production, the Aviakor version has been made entirely with Russian components.