According to the Russian military news network reported that Tajikistan's national airline, general manager of Mach Ma Dali Nazarbayev announced today that the company leadership and the Chinese manufacturers have signed the contract procurement MA-60 aircraft, plans to replace the company serving the aircraft safety -24, security Jacques -26 and -40.
Mach Ma Dali Aliyev said the national carrier for active use of the tower from China's MA-60 aircraft procurement, mainly domestic flights and 3 international routes (Dushanbe ━ Tehran, Dushanbe ━ Bishkek, Dushanbe Do not ━ Almaty) and other regional routes. He said: "This summer the national airline of Tajikistan and China signed a production enterprise in China, two MA-60 aircraft procurement contract, the two aircraft will arrive in Dushanbe before the end of November this year."
MA-60 is the help of the designer in the Ukraine developed a new type of aircraft, is the Soviet-made aircraft, the modernization of safety and -24 similar products. It is a modern assembly of engines, airborne equipment and the interior is very affordable medium-sized passenger aircraft, mainly used for flight in 1600 kilometers of feeder flight speed of 450 km, can take 60 passengers. Tajikistan Airlines who had once claimed that China's MA-60 aircraft is not entirely suitable for use in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, and because it can not perform Khorog (Gorno - Badakhshan Autonomous Prefecture) between flight missions. At that time the tower experts have produced more inclined to purchase the aircraft in Brazil, but then the Chinese side proposed a more favorable economic conditions, as favorable to the MA-60 is the heavy competitive factors, leading to Tajikistan's national airline decided to purchase Chinese products. It is reported that the existing 36 towers national airline aircraft, but only 19 can be used normally.