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Airbus sees US as biggest A400M customer

Despite the military plane's current technical problems, there is no other rival product for now, says CEO

Published Fri, Jun 12, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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EUROPEAN aircraft maker Airbus believes that the United States will be the biggest customer for its A400M military transport plane, despite a fatal crash involving one of them during a test flight last month.

"By the next decade at the latest, the US armed forces will be the biggest customer for the aircraft," Airbus chief executive Tom Enders told the weekly magazine WirtschaftsWoche in an interview.

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