The MA-60 is a turboprop powered 52-seat commercial transport designed and built by the China Aviation Industry Corp and is a stretched and re-designed variant of the Y7-200A, which itself was produced in China as a development of the Antonov An-24 transport which had been designed to operate in rugged

The Belfast C Mk 1 was a heavy-lift tactical transport built for the Royal Airforce and powered by four Rolls Royce Tyne R.Ty 12 turboprops driving four aluminium propellers 4.88 m (16 ft) in diameter.

In 1955 the Soviet Council of Ministers directed engine builders Kuznetsov and Ivchenko to develop new turboprop engines, and Ilyushin and Antonov to design an airliner to use these engines.