The AAI A-22 Aeneas is a four-engined airliner first flown in 1957, its main operator being Aquilla’s flag carrier, Air Eagle. The A-22 was well-known because of its great pace and large capacity. The A-22 was also used as a freighter, and, as the AT-1 Wanderer, an aerial tanker. 900 were built until 1972. Air Eagle plans to retire its A-22s in 2027, and they saw use with small freight companies until at least 2014. The AT-1 Wanderer remains in frontline service with the Aquillian Air Force. Notable individual aircraft: N101AE (built 1957, first production airframe, named Spirit of Roald Amundsen in Air Eagle service, 195,000 flight hours and counting, to be retired 2027), N322AE (built 1966, named in Air Eagle service Spirit of ANS Gerasimos, destroyed in 1979 mid-air collision with AF-76 Bloodhound AF-76-006, no survivors), AT-1-018 (built 1959, first AT-1, 166,000 flight hours and counting, notably deployed for literally everything), N900AE (built 1972, last A-22 ever made, operated by Air Eagle as Spirit of Sergei Taneyev, crashed 1997 and repaired with the parts of at least 2 scrapped A-22s and the door of a Vickers VC-10, still operating), Argos Aerospace Multi-Sensor Test Aircraft (ex-N122AE, built 1962, in service with Air Eagle from 1962-2011 as Spirit of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, converted to the Argos MSTA from 2011-13, in use since then by the Aquillian Institute of Intelligence, or AIM, resembles the Boeing 757 Catfish, nicknamed “Catfish” and “Pinnochio”) Crew: 3 Capacity: 180 people or 20 pallets Length: 180 ft Wingspan: 160 ft Empty weight: 180,000 lbs Max takeoff weight: 350,000 lbs Engine: x4 AAI Skyburner turbofans; 30,000 lbf each Max speed: 600 mph Cruise speed: 550 mph Range: 9,500 miles Price when new: $4,000,000 (freighter), $7,500,000 (airliner) Max altitude: 55,000 ft Variants: A-22, A-22A, AT-1, MS-22, MSTA
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