The Largest Airplanes In The World

The An-225 Mriya (Cossack) is a strategic airlift transport aircraft which was built by Antonov ASTC, a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company, and is the world's largest flying airplane ever built by the most commonly accepted measure, maximum gross takeoff weight. The design, built to transport the Buran orbiter, was an enlargement of the successful An-124 Ruslan. With a maximum gross weight of 640 tonnes, the An-225 is the world's heaviest and largest aircraft.

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engined airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.). It is the largest passenger airliner in the world. The Airbus A380F, the freighter model, is designed as one of the largest freight aircraft, with a listed payload capacity (590 tonnes) exceeded only by the An-225.

The An-124 Ruslan (Condor) is the largest aircraft ever mass produced, and was, until the advent of the An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in production. Over forty are currently in service. Up to 150 tonnes of cargo can be carried in a military An-124.

The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a military transport aircraft designed to provide strategic heavy airlift over intercontinental distances. It is the largest American military transport and one of the largest military aircraft in the world, designed to carry outsize and oversize cargo (up to 120 tonnes). The C-5 was developed and produced by Lockheed and is operated by the United States Air Force.