{"id":410024,"date":"2026-04-21T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/6-military-aircraft-largest-payload-capacity\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:00:19","slug":"6-military-aircraft-with-the-largest-payload-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=410024","title":{"rendered":"6 Military Aircraft With The Largest Payload Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2052239\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-facts-about-antonov-an-225-mriya-largest-aircraft-built\/\" >largest military aircraft by payload capacity ever built was the Antonov An-225<\/a><\/span>. However, only one aircraft was built, and that was destroyed in 2022. Other aircraft that could have made it onto the list include the Antonov An-22 Antei (max payload 176,000 lbs) and the McDonnell Douglas DC10 Extender (max payload 170,000 lbs). However, these, too, have retired except for a pair of ex-Dutch KDC-10 operated by Omega Aerial Refueling Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only three of the world&#8217;s biggest cargo military aircraft by payload capacity are in production today, with the largest dating from the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,853,412,11378,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-17-globemaster","category-military","category-military-transport","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410025,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410024\/revisions\/410025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}