TEHRAN- Iran’s national flag-carrier airline Iran Air signed a contract for purchasing 20 turboprop passenger planes from the French-Italian aircraft manufacturer ATR on April 15 and the first of the kind will be delivered to the country in a week, Mehr news agency reported on Monday quoting Iran Air Managing Director Farhad Parvaresh.

As Parvaresh announced previously, according to the contract, four of the accorded 70-seat ATRs were supposed to be delivered to Iran within a month from the date of the signing agreement and five ones of them were to be received by 2017 yearend. The rest will arrive by the end of 2018.
ATR has reportedly vowed to assist Iran with training pilots and providing technical services, too.

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