Pin made in Soviet Russia. The pin shows the Tupolev ANT-2. The text on the pin reads:”The first Soviet forty-seat passenger plane”, and:”40,000 passengers were transported on ANT-14 aircraft”.
The Tupolev ANT-14 Pravda was a Soviet aircraft, made in 1931, which served as the flagship of the Soviet propaganda squadron. It has been credited as Russia’s first all-metal aircraft, with a corrosion-resistant-steel structure.
It was capable of carrying a crew of three, as well as 36 passengers. The ANT-14 was tested by Aeroflot in 1932. While these tests revealed no problems with the aircraft, it was far larger than any other aircraft in its fleet, and it had no requirement for an aircraft with a 36-passenger capacity, so no production followed.
In 1933, the Soviet Union set up an aerial propaganda squadron, named after Maxim Gorky, and the ANT-14 was assigned to it as its flagship, being named Pravda (Truth) after the Soviet newspaper and was used mainly for sightseeing flights over Moscow. The ANT-14 carried over 40,000 passengers before being grounded in 1941.