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Tupolev Tu-154M

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About The TU-154M

The Tupolev Tu-154 (Russian: Ty????? ??-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian airlines for several decades, it carried half of all passengers flown by Aeroflot and its subsidiaries (137.5 million/year or 243.8 billion passenger-km in 1990), remaining the standard domestic-route airliner of Russia and former Soviet states until the mid-2000s. It was exported to 17 non-Russian airlines and used as a head-of-state transport by the air forces of several countries.

General Characteristics

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.883
  • Wing Loading 79.4lbs/ft2 (387.6kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 2,113.8ft2 (196.4m2)
  • Drag Points 49155

Parts

  • Number of Parts 755
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 3,705