TEHRAN (ecoideal)- Five new passenger planes manufactured by Franco-Italian turboprop plane-maker ATR will land at Tehran Mehrabad Airport on Sunday morning to join the Iran Air fleet.
Iran Air will receive the new ATR passenger planes tomorrow as part of the 20 ATR 72-600s which Iran Air signed with the Franco-Italian aircraft manufacturer in 2017, Civil Aviation Organization of Iran said.
The five ATR planes will land at Tehran Mehrabad International Airport at 9 a.m. on Sunday.
On Wednesday, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire expressed the hope that ATR would get permission from the US to deliver eight regional planes to Iran before August 6, when sanctions against Tehran would return.
Deliveries of turboprop aircraft were halted in May after the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal and reinstated sanctions against Iran, which prevent plane manufacturers whose aircraft contain more than 10% US-made components to export planes to Iran.
In May 2017, Iran received the first four ATR aircraft, two more in September 2017, and another two in December 2017. With the five more planes to be received on Sunday, ATR will have fulfilled the delivery of 13 out of the 20 planes under the contract.
Source: Farsnews