TEHRAN, August 14 - The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has given turboprop manufacturer ATR permission to supply Iran Air with spares to keep its fleet in the air, a report said.
TEHRAN, September 11 - The world’s largest commercial turboprop maker ATR is in talks with alternative buyers for seven remaining aircraft which it has to deliver to Iran under a $536 million deal, the company’s Italian shareholder Leonardo says.
TEHRAN, August 5 - Iran has received five more ATR turboprop airplanes only a day before the return of US sanctions that have already torpedoed the country’s plane purchases with other major providers.
TEHRAN, July 04 - Franco-Italian turboprop planemaker ATR says it has applied for a new export license from the US Treasury Department to deliver 12 aircraft to Iran under a deal signed in 2017, aviation news website AINonline has reported.
TEHRAN, June 27 - Regional aircraft manufacturer ATR said it must give up delivering the remaining aircraft ordered by Iran because of new US sanctions and that it will try to reclassify 12 aircraft if it does not obtain a waiver.
TEHRAN, June 05 - Head of Iran’s flag carrier Iran Air said the country expects to receive 11 passenger planes from Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR and the European aviation giant Airbus by the end of the current year.
TEHRAN, April 18 - Iran should receive 14 new passenger aircraft this year under agreements signed with Airbus, Boeing and ATR planemakers, a government official said.
TEHRAN, March 19 - The Civil Aviation Organization of Iran lifted a month-long ban that prevented the Aseman Airlines from operating its ATR planes after a fatal crash in February.
TEHRAN, March 4 - Director of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization Public Relations Reza Jafar-Zadeh said black box of ATR plane crashed in central Iran has been founded.
TEHRAN, February 23 - The ATR passenger planes at the disposal of Iran’s Aseman Airlines have been temporarily banned from flying in the wake of a recent crash that killed 65 people in southwest Iran.
TEHRAN, February 19 - Spokesman of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization Reza Jafar-Zadeh said a French delegation is arriving in Iran Monday night to investigate various aspects of Sunday plane crash in Iran.
TEHRAN, December 30 - Iranian Deputy Minister of Road and Transportation Asghar Fakhriyeh-Kashan said that two European and Chinese companies are going to finalize an agreement with Iran on airplanes.
TEHRAN, September 27 - The Airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s CEO Shahrokh Noush-Abadi said that Iran is going to receive two other ATR planes on Thursday.
TEHRAN, September 8 - Iran is going to receive two more brand-new turboprops it bought from ATR aircraft manufacturer, CEO of Iran Air Farzaneh Sharafbafi announced.
TEHRAN, August 30- Iran Air will be delivered two new European turboprop planes next month, meaning that the country has received 9 western since 2016, said Iranian Deputy Transport Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan.
TEHRAN, May 16, YJC - IranAir is set to take delivery of four ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft on Tuesday, part of plans to rebuild its fleet after nuclear-related sanctions against Iran were lifted last year.
TEHRAN, April 21, YJC - Only days after Iran signed an agreement to purchase medium-range twin-propeller aircraft from European aviation player ATR, the country says the planes will be used for flights to small airports.
TEHRAN, April 13, YJC - Iran’s national flag-carrier airline Iran Air has signed a much-awaited contract with the European plane manufacturer ATR to purchase over a dozen planes – a yet another move taken in light of the government’s plans to rejuvenate the country’s ageing aviation fleet.