Ukrainian airlines to get 50 An-148 aircraft

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Leasingtechtrans signed a letter of intent on Wednesday to acquire 50 An-148 and An-158 short-haul airliners from state-run ANTK Antonov.

Ukrainian airlines signed a letter of intent on Wednesday to acquire 50 An-148 and An-158 short-haul airliners from state-run ANTK Antonov.

Leasingtechtrans will acquire 22 An-148 and 28 An-158 aircraft by 2015 and transfer them to Ukrainian airlines for financial lease.

The deal was signed by Oleksandr Vlasyshen, chief executive of Ukraine's state-run leasing company Leasingtechtrans, and Antonov Chief Designer Dmitry Kiva.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Boris Kolesnikov who attended the signing ceremony said the letter of intent was part of the government's program to supply Ukrainian airliners with domestically made aircraft.

The An-158 is a stretched variant of the 85-seat An-148 regional jet with a payload of 99 passengers. It has an increased takeoff weight of 43.7 tons and a maximum range of 2,500 km.

The An-148 is produced by ANTK Antonov in Ukraine and by VASO in the western Russian city of Voronezh.

Antonov also signed a certificate on the transfer of the regional An-148-100 jet to Ukraine International Airlines.

"This is an important event as part of the program to stimulate Ukrainian airliners to buy domestic aircraft," Kolesnikov said.

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