Iran’s new light transport aircraft Simorgh, designed and developed by experts at the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA), has successfully conducted a test flight.

EghtesadOnline: Iran Air, the country’s flag carrier, will take delivery of 14 brand-new airplanes, include three Airbus jets, three Boeing jets in addition to eight ATR turboprops, by the end of 2018, if it manages to provide the down payments set in the contracts.

EghtesadOnline: Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Asghar Fakhriyeh Kashan said on Sunday that negotiations to buy airplane from Japanese Mitsubishi Company are underway and that Japan is due to deliver several planes to Iran in near future.

EghtesadOnline: Iran says it has authorized the creation of 10 new airlines within the next six months in what appears to be part of the country’s aggressive campaign to expand its air mobility infrastructure.

EghtesadOnline: Iran is expecting several newly-purchased planes to be delivered before a March 20 deadline, which marks the end of the current Iranian year.