State enterprise Antonov (Kyiv) has completed the large scale assembly of a new multipurpose An-132D aircraft with a load capacity of 9.2 tonnes being built in the framework of a contract with Saudi Arabia signed in April 2015, the press service of the enterprise has said.

"A tail unit has been installed on the aircraft. Thus, a fuselage, a wing and a tail unit have been assembled. We expect the supply of PW150A engines for the airplane by Pratt & Whitney Canada in April. A cooperation agreement with the Canadian company under the An-132 program was signed in October 2015," the plant said.

The prototype of a new AN-132 is to be completed by the end of 2016. After performing a series of test flights, the aircraft will be presented to potential customers in Saudi Arabia.

In parallel with the building of a demonstration copy of the aircraft, an agreement was achieved and a contract was signed with Taqnia Aeronautics at the AFED-2016 international aviation exhibition in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) in February, which is determined by the Saudi side as a manufacturing and marketing partner for the organization of a cooperative serial production of new transport An-132 aircraft.