Tupolev ANT-35

The Tupolev ANT-35, which entered Aeroflot service in 1937 as the PS-35, was a twin-engined all-metal light transport monoplane for ten passengers. A team under Alexander Arkhangelsky designed it in 1935 around the wings, tail and undercarriage of the ANT-40 (SB) bomber, with a new, cramped fuselage. The prototype flew on 20 August 1936 and was shown at the Paris Air Show that November, and the enlarged ANT-35bis with Wright Cyclone or Shvetsov M-62IR engines followed in 1937. Production stopped in 1939 after only nine aircraft plus the two prototypes, because licence-built Douglas DC-3 type airliners carried twice the passengers. It flew Moscow to Stockholm and Prague before wartime transport use.