Having been wfu in April 1994 with t/t 671 hours and 339 cycles, the An-225 was used as a source of spares for Antonov Design Bureau's An-124 fleet, but flew again in May 2001. It was still intact when the Russian airborne forces captured Gostomel in February 2022, but was destroyed in a retaliatory Ukrainian artillery attack at the end of the month. There has of course been talk about rebuilding it eventually using parts from the incomplete second airframe, but probably a bridge too far sadly

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