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The Tupolev ANT-9 (Russian: Туполев АНТ-9) was a Soviet passenger aircraft of the 1930s. It was developed as a reaction to the demand for a domestic airliner. At this time Deruluft, one of the forerunners of Aeroflot, flew only with foreign models, which were mainly German or Dutch.

ANT-9
Early production ANT-9 with three engines
Role	Airliner Type of aircraft
National origin	Soviet Union
Manufacturer	Tupolev
First flight	5 May 1929
Introduction	1931
Retired	1945
Primary user	Aeroflot
Number built	~100
Developed into	Tupolev ANT-14

Design work began in December 1927. The first prototype, named Krylia Sovietov (Wings of the Soviets) used three French Gnome-Rhone Titan radial engines. It was presented to the public on 1 May 1929 at Red Square and it went to the national flight testing, which was completed in June. In the first series 12 aircraft were built. In production, the Titan engines were replaced with M-26 engines, but these proved too unreliable and were replaced with imported Wright Whirlwind engines. Two of these airplanes were used by Deruluft, starting from 1933 on the Berlin-Moscow service. Mikhail Gromov accomplished a European round flight on the route Moscow – Travemünde – Berlin – Paris – Rome – Marseille – London – Paris – Berlin – Warsaw – Moscow with the Krylia Sovietov, which lasted from 10 July to 8 August 1929 and generated considerable publicity. It carried eight passengers over a distance of 9,037 km (5,615 mi), in 53 flying hours with an average speed of 177 km/h (110 mph).

In September 1930, testing of the Wright-powered version of the ANT-9 was completed. A few were used as executive transports for the Soviet Air Forces. A military variant with standard and retractable turrets was under construction, but was abandoned before trials began. An ambulance version was studied and considered, but never built. In 1932, GVF engineer Sergei Ivanovich Komarov proposed a modification of the ANT-9 wing to accommodate two M-17 engines, similar to what was done on the R-6. Production began in 1933 as the PS-9 (Russian: пассажирский самолёт, romanized: passazhirskiy samolot, passenger airplane). The number of aircraft built amounted to about 70 machines. Up to the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, they served as passenger or staff airplanes mainly on routes in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Afterwards they were used until 1943 as transportation and medical airplanes.^{[citation needed]} One PS-9 was modified into a propaganda aircraft named Krokodil (Crocodile) with a reptile-like plywood nose.

Operators

Military operators

 Soviet Union

• Soviet Air Force

 Turkey

• Turkish Air Force

Civil operators

 Soviet Union

• Aeroflot
• Deruluft

 Turkey

• Turkish Airlines

Accidents and incidents

• On December 6, 1936, a Deruluft ANT-9, registration CCCP-D311, crashed near Moscow due to pilot error, killing nine of 14 on board.

Specifications (PS-9)

Data from The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995[1]

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Capacity: 9 passengers
• Length: 17.01 m (55 ft 10 in)
• Wingspan: 23.85 m (78 ft 3 in)
• Height: 5 m (16 ft 5 in) [2]
• Wing area: 84 m² (900 sq ft)
• Airfoil: root: Tupolev A0 (20%) ; tip: Tupolev A0 (14%)[3]
• Empty weight: 4,400 kg (9,700 lb)
• Gross weight: 6,200 kg (13,669 lb)
• Powerplant: 2 × Mikulin M-17 V-12 water-cooled piston engines, 373 kW (500 hp) each
  

alternate engines:3x Bristol Titan, 3x Wright J-5 Whirlwind or 3x M-26

• Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propellers

Performance

• Maximum speed: 215 km/h (134 mph, 116 kn)
• Cruise speed: 180 km/h (110 mph, 97 kn)
• Range: 700 km (430 mi, 380 nmi)
• Service ceiling: 5,100 m (16,700 ft)
• Rate of climb: 2.8 m/s (550 ft/min)
• Power/mass: 0.12 kW/kg (0.073 hp/lb)

See also

• Andrei Tupolev
• Tupolev

References

Further reading

External links

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На других языках

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[de] Tupolew ANT-9

Die Tupolew ANT-9 (russisch Туполев АНТ-9) war ein sowjetisches Passagierflugzeug, das in den 1930er-Jahren eingesetzt wurde.

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- [en] Tupolev ANT-9

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[fr] Tupolev ANT-9

Le Tupolev ANT-9 est un avion de ligne trimoteur, qui servit aussi d'avion de transport et d'avion d'évacuation sanitaire. Il servait pour des vols internationaux et interne à l'Union soviétique.

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[it] Tupolev ANT-9

Il Tupolev ANT-9 (in cirillico Туполев АНТ-9) era un trimotore (poi bimotore) di linea ad ala alta progettato dall'OKB 156 diretto da Andrej Nikolaevič Tupolev e sviluppato in Unione Sovietica nei tardi anni venti.

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[ru] ПС-9

АНТ-9, ПС-9 или «Крылья Советов» — ближнемагистральный трёхдвигательный самолёт, один из первых советских многоместных пассажирских самолётов[1], разработан в СССР в конце 1920-х годов.

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