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Article: Saab Aircraft Leasing Posts Strong Year in 2005.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- February 20, 2006
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The year 2005 will be recorded in aviation history as the year of the "turboprop comeback". New turboprop sales surpassed regional jet sales for the first time in 10 years, and in turn Saab Aircraft Leasing completed a very successful year.
SAL placed 32 aircraft during last year including 10 Saab 2000s and 22 Saab 340s (See attached Appendix for details).These turboprops were placed with existing customers such as Carpatair, Colgan, Eastern, IBC, Lithuanian, Loganair, OLT, Penair and REX. In addition, new customers were sourced during 2005 including Bimini, FlyLPI, Mash Executive, Pacific Coastal and RAF Avia.
Included in these ...