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Friday, January 09, 2009

Dominican Republic buys 8 planes from Embraer

Brazil's Embraer has sold eight Super Tucano light-attack aircraft to the Dominican Republic, the world's third-largest commercial jet maker said on Friday.

The company, which gave no value for the deal, said in a statement that the Caribbean country's air force would use the aircraft in border patrol and anti-drug trafficking operations.

Embraer last year sold 12 of the turbo-prop planes to the Chilean air force.

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