Tupolev Tu-330

The Tupolev Tu-330 was a proposed Russian medium-size transport aircraft that Tupolev developed from the early 1990s. The project was stopped around the 2000s because of a lack of funding and the poor economic situation of the Russian aircraft industry. The design had a swept, high-mounted wing with two high-bypass-ratio Aviadvigatel PS-90A engines under it, and an optional version with NK-93 engines able to run on liquefied natural gas. It was designed to share many parts with the Tu-204 and Tu-214 airliners to keep production, maintenance and spares costs down. Proposed variants ranged from the basic civilian cargo aircraft to search and rescue, firefighting, long-range reconnaissance, communications relay, strategic and tactical airlifter, medical evacuation and aerial tanker versions. The quoted data show a crew of two, a length of 42 metres, a wingspan of 43.5 metres, a gross weight of 103,500 kilograms, a useful lift of 35,000 kilograms and a range of 3,000 kilometres.