Antonov An-124 Ruslan has landed at Auckland Airport.

One of the world’s largest cargo planes, the Antonov An-124 Ruslan, touched down at Auckland Airport after flying in from Hawaii as part of a planned private freight operation. The massive four-engine aircraft, originally designed in the 1980s by a Soviet-era Ukrainian bureau, took just over nine hours to reach Auckland. It is capable of carrying up to 150 tonnes of cargo and has a maximum take-off weight exceeding 400 tonnes. Only 55 of these planes were ever built between 1982 and 2014, making its appearance relatively rare.