Tupolev Tu-124

Tu-124
Aeroflot Tu-124 at Arlanda Airport in 1966
Role Short-range airliner
Design group Tupolev
Built by Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company
First flight 29 March 1960
Introduction 2 October 1962
Retired 1980 (Aeroflot), 1990 (Iraqi Airways), 1992 (military service)
Status Retired
Primary users Aeroflot
ČSA

Interflug

Produced 1960–1965
Number built 164
Developed from Tupolev Tu-104
Variants Tupolev Tu-134

The Tupolev Tu-124 (NATO reporting name: Cookpot) is a 56-passenger short-range twinjet airliner built in the Soviet Union. It was the first Soviet airliner powered by turbofan engines.[1]

  1. ^ The Development Of Jet And Turbine Aero Engines 4th edition, Bill Gunston 2006, ISBN 0 7509 4477 3, p.197

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