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Boeing awards Xi’an Aircraft contract to supply "Floor Beams"

Seattle, Usa - For the B-747/400 Special Freighter

Boeing said China’s Xi'an Aircraft Industry Company will supply floor beams for the 747-400 Special Freighter, a program to convert passenger airplanes into freighters. The beams will be used to strengthen the main deck of 747-400 passenger airplanes so that they can accept a new cargo handling system and a new role as a freighter. China and Boeing’s industrial cooperation began in the mid-1970s. The...

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Rome, Italy, 09/30/2004 14:30
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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