Only one airplane on Earth can carry four Russian military tanks, an entire train, or 50 cars. It requires six engines and a staggering 290-foot wingspan (that's nearly the length of a football field) to accomplish these feats, but such superlatives have helped the Antonov An-225 claim the distinction of being the world's biggest airplane.
Designed to carry Soviet spacecraft in the 1980s, the An-225 (also known as the “Mriya”) weighs just a hair over 661 tons and is 276 feet long. That's three times heavier than the Statue of Liberty, and six times longer than a yellow school bus.
The Mriya is the only airplane of its kind—and it's set more than 200 world records. Presently, it's the largest propeller-driven aircraft, the largest aircraft by weight in history, the largest bi-plane, and the largest aircraft by wingspan, according to Guinness World Records.
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