Ukraine, a large country in Eastern Europe, is considering resuming production of the Antonov-74 air cargo plane and supplying them to the country's armed forces, the government said on Saturday.

The Soviet-designed An-74 is a light transport aircraft with jet engines capable of flying 4,600 km at a speed of 560 km per hour. It made its first flight in 1979.

A total of 62 An-74 were built in the period from 1985 to 2004. Ukraine, the designer of the world's largest transport aircraft An-225, has all but stopped building planes in recent years due to a severe economic crisis and the severing of relations with Russia, where a significant part of the components was produced.

In the early 1980s, remarkably, the An-74 multipurpose aircraft was designed by Ukraine's state-run aircraft manufacturing company Antonov. The East European country has manufactured 81 planes before the production was suspended in 2015.

The An-74 is a medium-sized aircraft capable of carrying up to 10 people in the transport version and 52 people in the passenger version.

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