ATR Scraps STOL Effort To Focus On Lowering Customers' Operating Costs

ATR

ATR plans a new round of upgrades to the 40-year-old turboprop to lower airline operating costs.

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ATR is ceasing work on the short takeoff and landing (STOL) version of the ATR 42-600 to focus on upgrades for the turboprop family aimed at lowering operating costs for its airline customers, the airframer’s CEO Nathalie Tarnaud Laude said Nov. 13. ATR is changing course at a time when it continues...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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