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...addition, two regional airlines and a travel agency in West Germany have ordered eight YAK-40s and taken options on six more. A small charter carrier in Italy has two of the jets on order. Commuter airlines in Italy, France, England and Sweden are dickering for YAKs with Aviaexport, the Soviet aircraft export agency. Aviaexport has asked the Boeing Co. to distribute and service the plane...
...Aviaexport is now eager to sell YAKs abroad, principally to developing countries that lack modern airport facilities. The agency gives exceptionally easy credit terms. For the Colombians, they were no money down with 15 years to pay at 2% interest. The Soviets have also offered to build a factory in Colombia that would supply YAKs to the rest of the Western Hemisphere. Colombian officials have not accepted the deal, but they have let the Russians assemble a sample plane at Barranquilla that will soon begin demonstration flights in ten countries...
...Aviaexport salesmen are moving on other fronts. Boeing and Aviaexport are competing for the sale of eight medium-and long-range transports to Egyptair. A West German building contractor has bought a giant Soviet KA-26 helicopter. Aviaexport's man in West Germany reports that he is negotiating to sell a 250-passenger TU-154 jet to a local travel combine. Now that plans for an American SST have been scrapped, some Western airline executives have been visiting Moscow to examine the TU-144 supersonic transport, which is scheduled to begin regular flights inside Russia next year...
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