The
Tupolev Tu-154 (;
NATO reporting name:
Careless) is a
three-engine medium-range narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by
Tupolev. A workhorse of
Soviet and (subsequently) Russian airlines for several decades, it carried half of all passengers flown by
Aeroflot and its subsidiaries (137.5 million/year or 243.8 billion passenger km in 1990), remaining the standard domestic-route airliner of Russia and former Soviet states until the mid-2000s. It was exported to 17 non-Russian airlines and used as head-of-state transport by the
air forces of several countries.