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World's biggest plane may finally be finished after 30 years of gathering dust

It will cost about £270million to complete the plane (Image: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/REX/Shutterstock)

Manufacturers may finally finish building the world's largest ever plan that's been gathering dust in an aircraft hanger since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Antonov An-255, which is around 70 per cent complete, has been kept in storage in Ukraine for the past three decades.

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