MNA � Five ATR turboprop aircraft landed in Mehrabad Airport on Sunday morning, to be added to the Iran Air�s fleet.







As part of efforts to replenish ageing fleet, five new ATR 72-600 planes arrived in Urmia International Airport on Sunday, after an 8-hour flight from Toulouse of France, and after the refueling process headed� to Tehran and landed in the�Mehrabad Airport around 10 o'clock in the morning.

IranAir signed last year a contract to buy 20 ATR 72-600 aircraft,�joint-owned by France-based Airbus and Leonardo of Italy, worth $576 million.

ATR - which had delivered 8 planes to Iran under the deal and started building another 12 - has been lobbying the US�Treasury to allow it to take advantage of the normal wind-down period for Iran business by giving it temporary new licenses.

Airbus said last month it would not attempt to deliver any more planes to Iran in the wind-down period. It has delivered just three of 100 ordered by IranAir.

Boeing, which had sold 80 jets to IranAir under the 2015 nuclear deal, does not plan any deliveries.