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Cessna, the biggest unit of Providence-based Textron with $5 billion in sales last year, said this morning it won two orders valued at $17 million for 26 propeller-driven aircraft for Indonesian charter airline Susi Air and Indian flight school operator Chimes Aviation.

Cessna is looking to customers outside the U.S., its largest market, for revenue growth. The planemaker is marketing training- sized aircraft in Asia where a new-pilot shortage is jeopardizing the region's rising air-travel needs.

Susi Air ordered six 208B Grand Caravan turbo-prop aircraft to be delivered next year and in 2010. The aircraft has a list price of $2 million. Chimes's order for 20 single-engine 172 Skyhawk aircraft will be begin delivery immediately. The planes will be used to train pilots in Madhya Pradesh, India. The planes carry a price tag of $250,000 each.

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