The world's largest aircraft Antonov An-225 Mriya Saturday morning made a graceful landing at northern China's Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport (SJW), which is the giant cargo aircraft's second touchdown at the airport within a week.

The An-225 carrying vehicle mold for Mercedes-Benz took off from Leipzig, Germany for Shijiazhuang after making a technical stop in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.

It is learned that the An-225 touched down at Shijiazhuang airport on Monday, its eighth landing at the airport. Shijiazhuang is the only Chinese mainland airport approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to accommodate the cargo aircraft.

The An-225 is powered by six turbofan engines and is the longest and heaviest airplane ever built with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes. It also has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service. Mriya means "Dream" in Ukrainian. It is the only An-225 in the world.

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