Flight testing of AN-132 to start next year

Saudi Arabia will start flight tests of the AN-132, an improved version of the An-32 twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft it is developing with Ukraine, next year.

Antonov An-32B AN1881317
By Oleg V. Belyakov – AirTeamImages [CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons

Prince Turki bin Saud bin Mohammad, president of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, added that 80 aircraft will be assembled in the country.

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