Aircraft
Ukraine and KSA To Cooperate On An-132 Production
The An-132 will be a modernized An-32 built in Saudi Arabia with Ukraine’s Antonov as “consultant”.

On June 16 at the Paris Airshow, Ukraine’s Antonov aviation consortium signed an agreement for the joint design of a new aircraft and the construction of a series-production plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Antonov officials describe the aircraft as based on the An-132 twin-turboprop. It is designed to replace several previous-generation models: the An-32, of which more than 360 different variants have been built; the An-26, of which more than 1,400 models have been manufactured; the Aeritalia G-222, of which 46 types are in service; and the 120 CASA C-235s that are in operation in different regions of the world.