=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/news/archive/2004/10/11/f= inancial0542EDT0018.DTL --------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 11, 2004 (AP) Turkmenistan Airlines to receive two Boeing 717-200s (10-11) 13:49 PDT SEATTLE (AP) -- Turkmenistan Airlines has decided to buy two Boeing 717-200s next year, the central Asian carrier and the manufacturer have announced. The two twinjet passenger aircraft, assembled in Long Beach, Calif., and valued at $80 million in list prices, are scheduled for delivery in August, according to a joint news release issued Sunday. The Turkmenistan flag carrier, which in 1992 became the first from the former Soviet Union to order Boeing planes, now has five 717-200s, three 737-300s and four 757-200s. "The 717 is an excellent airplane which has helped us to complete our pl= an to replace Soviet-built airplanes with Boeing airplanes," said Baymurat Bayryev, chief executive of Turkmenistan Airlines. The order boosts the total for the 717, Boeing Co.'s smallest passenger aircraft, to 169 planes, 134 of which have been delivered. On the New York Stock Exchange, Boeing shares rose 16 cents to close at $50.26 Monday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2004 AP