Managing Director of Iran Airplane Manufacturing Company (HSA) announced Here Wednesday first Iran-Ukraine made Antonov passenger plane would fly in the year 2013. According to IRNA Wednesday Night News Team, Mohammad-Ali Sirati further reiterated at a new conference with the Iranian and Ukrainian reporters, “In order to match our Antonov planes with Iran’s atmosphere, we would buy two planes of these series earlier than the scheduled date for our own planes’ flights.” Pointing out that the first plane of this type would fly in Iran in the year 2012, he said, “That plane would fly in Iran for a full one year period and since the conditions of the plane are constantly subject to changes, the parts of that plane, too, would follow suit.” ANTONOV 158 MANUFACTURED FULLY IN Iran The HAS managing director further reiterated, “At the end of those two planes’ lengthy test flights the joint production of them would begin and the HAS and Antonov would cooperate in their manufacturing, and they would fly in Iranian skies in the year 2013.”