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Russia's Aeroflot plans to acquire 12 Airbus A320 planes and two to five Boeing 767 aircraft as the state-controlled airline seeks to update its fleet, it said on Friday. "In a year and a half we'll take 12 additional planes of the A320 family," Aeroflot Deputy General Director Sergei Kharitonov told an investment conference in Moscow. He said the Boeing planes were likely to be acquired in about a year. Kharitonov said Aeroflot also planned to replace outdated Tu-134 planes with foreign-made used aircraft. Starting from 2008, Aeroflot intends to buy 30 planes used for regional routes. It will choose from either An-148s or RRJs, he said. The government has promised to ease import restrictions on some Boeing and Airbus models after Russia's flagship Ilyushin-96-300 passenger plane disrupted a trip by President Vladimir Putin, raising concerns about the safety of domestic passenger planes. Russia grounded all Il-96-300 planes for repair works.