Tajik air carrier buys AN-140-100 plane from Ukraine

Ukraine's Kharkiv aircraft production enterprise and Tajikistan's TOJ-Airlines signed a contract for the procurement of an AN-140-100 regional passenger plane, the enterprise's press service said on Thursday.

Under the contract, the plane will be handed over to the customer in September 2005, a press service official told Interfax-Military News Agency. The aircraft will be used for making regular flights on short domestic and international routes. According to the official, the Tajik air carrier considers the possibility of procuring another AN-140-100.

The Kharkiv enterprise earlier signed a contract for the supplies of four AN-140-100 aircraft to Azerbaijani's AZAL state-owned consortium. The first of them will be handed over to the customer in November. In addition, the enterprise's stock of orders includes preliminary orders for up to 18 planes from Kazakhstan and pre-contract agreements for several more dozens of AN-140-100 planes with air carriers from Russia and other countries.

Fonte: Interfax - 28/10/2004