Iran designs 100-150 seat planes
By Sara Rajabova
Along with cooperation with the forein countries to renovate its aging aviation fleet, Iran also carries out works on designing and producing avionic systems.
The Islamic Republic has recently completed the conceptual design of 100-150 seat planes.
Mansour Kabganian, secretary of the headquarters tasked with implementing Iran’s comprehensive national plan of scientific progress, said the plan includes a section related to air and aerospace industries which aims to boost hardware and software capacities, designing and manufacturing helicopters, and producing avionic systems.
He noted that negotiations have been made with Russia for manufacturing such planes, IRNA news agency reported.
Kabganian stressed that the headquarters focused on three aspects, including designing and manufacturing small engines, which it has attained its related technology.
He also added that attaining hardware and software knowledge about medium and heavy engines will be materialized by summer 2017 and 2020, respectively.
Kabganian explained that regarding medium-sized helicopters, his institution has been manufacturing samples, while it has reached self-sufficiency in light helicopters.
Furthermore, he added that though there are some certain countries holding technology related to drones, but they have planned to reach preset goals by 2025.
The country has been long attempting to renovate its aging aviation fleet.
Iranian media earlier quoted officials as saying that Iran plans to buy 500 new passenger planes, noting negotiations with top world companies are underway for ordering the new airplanes.
World’s aviation giants, such as Boeing, Airbus expressed willingness to resume the cooperation with the Islamic Republic following the removal of sanctions. The sanctions are expected to be removed in 2016.
Iran earlier added nine new planes less than 10 years old to its air fleet.
Iranian officials repeatedly announced that the county will need 400-500 civilian aircraft worth at least $20 billion in the next decade to renovate its aging fleet, which has suffered under years of U.S. and European sanctions.
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