The Tupolev ANT-43 was an experimental passenger aircraft designed and built by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1930s to gain practical experience with the so-called placemeter production method, in which the aircraft was conceived from stencil-based templates rather than project drawings. It was a seven-passenger, low-wing, all-metal monoplane that resembled the ANT-31 (I-14) fighter and was intended as a headquarters liaison aircraft, with one 600 kW Gnome et Rhone 14Rsd radial piston engine. The prototype was built in 1935 and 1936, but concerns about weak airframe construction led TsAGI to summon a commission led by Viktor N. Belyayev, which found that it did not meet structural strength norms and refused to approve flight tests. The ANT-43 was scrapped without ever being flown.
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was an experimental passenger aircraft designed and built by the Tupolev Design Bureau
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the ANT-43 was scrapped without ever being flown
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14-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 600 kW (800 hp)
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