Tu-124 | |
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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 |
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]