THE RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY HAS RECEIVED A BIG ORDER








MOSCOW, March 1, 2001 /from RIA Novosti correspondent Eduard Puzyrev/ -- The Russian aircraft industry receives the biggest order since  the time of the start of market reforms in Russia; its cost tops 450 million dollars, said director general of the Russian  Atlant-Soyuz aviation company Stanislav  Leichenko. 


	The Atlant-Soyuz aviation company will take on lease ten new Il-96-400-T and four Tu-240S planes. With this aim in view it has signed an appropriate framework agreement with the Russian  leasing company Ilyushin-Finance Co. "This deal can be called without exaggeration a contract of the decade," said Stanislav Leichenko. He pointed out that this contract is an example of  concrete assistance to the Russian aircraft industry, and that the implementation of the agreement can be a good start for  reviving this Russian industry. 


	The planes will be made at the aviation plants in Voronezh (Central Russia) and in Ulyanovsk (Volga region). They will be  equipped with Russian PS-90A engines and Russian avionics. 


	The Atlant-Soyuz company will receive the first consignment of the planes already in twenty-two months. -O- (kos/var) 


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