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Article: AN-140 Scheduled for Mass Production in 1999
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 19, 1997
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The Antonov Aviation Design & Production Complex said today its
new AN-140 short-range passenger aircraft is scheduled to go into
mass production in Ukraine and Russia in 1999.
Petro Balabuyev, the designer of the Kiev-based aircraft
designing
company, said the AN-140 is expected to be certified for use in 1999
and go into production at Kiev's Aviant plant and other plants in
Ukraine and Russia.
Balabuyev said the company predicted the demand for the AN-140,
tentatively ...