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Airbus Military: A400M airplane achieves first military standard acceptance through IOC

Madrid, Spain - From Occar, on behalf of the launch Nations

Today the Airbus Military A400M new generation aircraft has received its Type Acceptance at the contractual Initial Operating Clearance (IOC) Standard from OCCAR, the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation, on behalf of the Launch Nations (Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom). It represents a historic milestone of the A400M programme after 10 years of development...

fra/pec - 1154390
Rome, Italy, 07/31/2013 15:05
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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