Anticipating growth in demand for turboprops, ATR is moving to ramp up production rates in 2012 in a bid to deliver as many as 60 aircraft in the year.
Speaking to Flight International on the sidelines of a Toulouse ceremony making ATR's 900th delivery - to Trip Linhas Aereas - chief executive Filippo Bagnato said the Franco-Italian manufacturer will hold 2011 output at about the 50-plus aircraft it expects to deliver this year as it concentrates on introduction of its new -600 series.
"We are not going to grow our delivery rate next year because we will deliver the first new -600 series in the second quarter," Bagnato said. He said output in 2013 "could go even higher" than 60 aircraft. Last year, ATR delivered......
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