Airplanes

CAO issues permit for airlines to import planes

TEHRAN, Feb. 20 (MNA) – Iran's Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) has given the green light to the domestic airlines to purchase and import planes, head of CAO said on Wednesday.
2019-02-20 15:17
Qatar Airways launches Doha-Isfahan flight route

TEHRAN, Feb. 04 (MNA) – The director general of Isfahan Province Airports Company says the first Doha-Isfahan flight by Qatar Airways was operated on Monday.
2019-02-04 16:05
72-seat aircraft manufacturing underway

TEHRAN, Jan. 07 (MNA) – Secretary of Headquarter for Development of Aeronautics Technology of Iran’s Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology Manouchehr Manteghi said that manufacturing 72-seat aircraft is underway in cooperation with domestic experts and engineers.
2019-01-07 16:57
Deputy roads min.:

European countries refuse fueling Iranian aircrafts

TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) – CEO of Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) and Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Ali Abedzadeh said that most European countries refuse delivering fuel to Iranian airplanes.
2018-12-17 16:25
Foreign Min. starts looking into refueling issue for Iranian planes in Turkey, Lebanon

TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) – Secretary of Association of Iranian Airlines told Mehr News on Sun. that the Foreign Ministry has begun looking into the refueling issue for Iranian planes in Turkey and Lebanon.
2018-12-02 12:43
Iran to sue ATR over breaking deal under US sanctions

TEHRAN, Sep. 12 (MNA) – Iran will file a lawsuit against the Franco-Italian turboprop planemaker ATR over breaking its contract with Tehran under US sanctions, head of the Iranian parliament's Civil Commission said Wednesday.
2018-09-12 13:37
Five new ATR jets enter service in Iran

TEHRAN, Aug. 17 (MNA) – The latest five ATR turboprop aircraft entered service on Friday starting on busy domestic routes such as Tehran to Mashhad.
2018-08-17 16:03
IranAir to receive 5 new ATR planes Sunday

TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) – Five new planes manufactured by Franco-Italian turboprop planemaker ATR will land at Tehran Mehrabad Airport on Sun. morning to join the national flag carrier IranAir fleet.
2018-08-04 09:55
Iran Air to receive 11 new planes by year-end

TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA) – Iran Air (HOMA) CEO Farzaneh Sharafbafi announced Tue. that Iran Air will receive 8 new ATR and 3 new Airbus passenger planes by the end of 2018.
2018-06-05 18:38
US official expounds on details of selling aircraft to Iran

TEHRAN, Mar. 22 (MNA) – Policymaking Chief of the United States Department of the Interior Robert Hooke in his recent statement spoke on hesitating issuance of licenses to sell aircraft to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
2018-03-22 16:38
Turkish private jet hits Iranian high mountains

TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – A Turkish private jet which was using Iranian air space to get from Sharjah to Istanbul crashed in Iranian western mountain ranges after catching fire, according to local eyewitnesses.
2018-03-11 19:21
Iran indigenizes aircraft hydraulic systems

TEHRAN, Mar. 05 (MNA) – Iranian experts in knowledge-based foundation managed to develop hydraulic systems for different aircraft which increases the safety factor in tourist helicopters.
2018-03-05 10:49
By: Javad Eslami

Crashed ATR-72 plane still not found

TEHRAN, Feb. 19 (MNA) – Thirty-six hours after the passenger plane of Aseman Airline which had 66 on board was lost on radar tracks, still no part of the missed ATR-72 plane has been found. A number of 26 rescue teams along with 106 climbers have been dispatched to the estimated area of the accident, while the bad weather is hampering the search efforts in the mountainous region.
2018-02-19 20:28
Tehran airports restore normal conditions after snow shock

TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (MNA) – According to Iranian Roads and Urban Development Minister Abbas Akhoundi the two major airports of Tehran have regained the normal status to serve landing and departing airplanes.
2018-01-28 14:07
Iran, Iraq ink air transport agreement

TEHRAN, Jan. 13 (MNA) – In a bid to ease the travel of pilgrims and expand transportation cooperation, Iran and Iraq signed an air transportation agreement on Saturday.
2018-01-13 21:15
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Aseman Airlines obliged to get license from US Department of Treasury in Boeing deal

TEHRAN, Jan. 10 (MNA) – Iran Aseman Airlines was obliged to get license from the US Department of Treasury for purchasing 30 Boeing aircrafts.
2018-01-10 20:37
Deputy roads min.:

Airbus agrees to finance 37 aircraft for Iran

TEHRAN, Dec. 31 (MNA) – Deputy Roads Minister Fakhrieh Kashan said manufacturing companies have already funded a number of airplanes purchased by Iran’s flag-carrier airliner Iran Air in the post-JCPOA era.
2017-12-31 13:23
Deputy roads min.:

US seeks to seize Iran’s payments for airplanes

TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) – Deputy Roads Minister Fakhrieh Kashan said the latest decision by the US Congress to monitor aircraft deals with Iran aimed at discouraging financial institutes from conducting business and tracking or freezing Iran’s payments for purchasing planes.
2017-12-17 11:00
Iran grants passage to plane carrying Bulgarian PM

TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (MNA) – The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said that Iran has not forbidden the plane carrying Bulgarian PM to overfly Iran and said “after the official request of the Bulgarian embassy in Tehran, the permit for the Bulgarian plane to overfly Iran was granted.”
2017-11-30 13:13
ATR to deliver 8 more planes to Iran by year end

TEHRAN, Nov. 14 (MNA) – ATR’s Christian Scherer told the media that the company is posed to outpace its promised deliveries to Iran, with handing another 8 passenger carriers to Iran.
2017-11-14 20:11
By: Asghar Khamseh

Two newly-bought planes land at Tehran's Mehrabad

TEHRAN, Sep. 29 (MNA) – Two new ATR passenger planes, made by Franco-Italian plane manufacturer, have just landed in Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport on Thursday. The two ATR 72-600s arrived in Tehran from Toulouse, France. These two are the 8th and 9th planes out of the 200 planes purchased by Iran after the nuclear deal of July 14, 2015.
2017-09-29 13:26
Ali Akbar Velayati:

Preventing aircraft sales to Iran violates JCPOA

TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – Iranian Leader’s Senior Advisor on International Affair said US measures to prevent sales of commercial aircraft to Iran undermines the JCPOA, however Iran does not need the US.
2017-09-14 18:11
House blocked aircraft sales to Iran

TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – The House adopted measures on Wednesday to prevent sales of commercial aircraft to Iran, despite warnings from some Democrats that it would undermine the JCPOA.
2017-09-14 16:57
ATR to deliver 5 aircraft to Iran within months

TEHRAN, Dec. 31 (MNA) – Deputy roads minister said an airplane purchase contract will be inked with ATR aircraft manufacturer in a few days and Iran will receive five passenger planes in three months.
2016-12-31 14:22
Airbus, ATR to deliver 8 aircraft in coming months

TEHRAN, Dec. 25 (MNA) – Deputy road minister said eight new Airbus and ATR passenger planes will be delivered to Iran Air within three months.
2016-12-25 14:40
Iranian airlines to consider SSJ100 purchase

TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) – An official of Iran's Aviation Companies Association said Iranian airlines will launch talks with Russia over Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft.
2016-12-10 13:18
Head of Iran Aviation Industries:

Iran soon to launch coop. with Airbus on plane spare parts

TEHRAN, Dec. 05 (MNA) – Managing director of Iran Aviation Industries Organization said Iran will begin cooperation with Airbus on the manufacture of airplane spare parts in the near future.
2016-12-05 16:09
OFAC authorizes sales of 106 Airbus planes to Iran

TEHRAN, Nov. 23 (MNA) – The The US Treasury Department has given green lights to France's Airbus Group SE to sell 106 commercial planes to Iran.
2016-11-23 09:58
Iran to purchase 500 aircrafts in 8 years

TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) – Iran’s deputy has announced that 400 to 500 aeroplanes will be added to the country’s aviation fleet within eight years.
2016-10-26 18:59
Iran says purchases from Boeing 'easier'

TEHRAN, Sep. 23 (MNA) – Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Asghar Fakhriyeh said that talks are underway among Iranian sides, Airbus, and Boeing.
2016-09-23 12:43