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Airbus wins Saudi order for tanker planes

Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:41am EST

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PARIS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus (EAD.PA) has won a Saudi Arabian order worth between 350 million euros ($455 million) and 400 million euros, the French Ministry of Defence said on Monday.

The French government said Saudi Arabia had decided to order an unspecified number of A330 MRTT tanker/transport planes from Airbus.

The basic planes will be made in Toulouse while Spain's CASA will turn them into military aircraft at its Getafe site near Madrid.

Casa in June started to convert A330s into the Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) for the Royal Australian Airforce which had ordered five of the craft worth some 825 million euros.

((Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Marcel Michelson, editing by Quentin Bryar; Reuters Messaging: sudip.kargupta.reuters.com@reuters.net; +33 1 49 49 54 52))

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