INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
the end of the current Iranian calendar year (late March 2024).Speaking in a televised program on Wednesday, Mohammad Mohammadi-Bakhsh said
some 70 airplanes are going to be added to the CAO fleet by the yearend, Tasnim News Agency reported.Back in August 2022, Mohammadi-Bakhsh
this program, fleet expansion up to 550 airplanes, repairing airplane parts, and indigenizing the knowledge for the construction of aircraft
buying airplanes, manufacturing airplanes, and repairing grounded airplanes
aviation fleet.Knowledge-based companies have also been tasked to work on new programs for the domestic manufacturing of passenger aircraft,
designing domestic airplanes, but what is currently being pursued is the manufacturing of 50-passenger planes in collaboration with Iran
explained.The official further noted that a consortium of Russian, Chinese, and Indian companies has been formed to participate in the
industry nearly 80 years ago and this industry is still improving in the country, however, despite its long history general aviation (GA) in
Iran has been almost completely neglected.EF/
