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Byline: Boonsong Kositchotethana
Mar. 1--SINGAPORE -- The world's biggest aircraft, the A380 superjumbo, could grow even larger as the European plane maker Airbus considers building a stretched version that could carry up to 1,000 passengers and fly further.
The A380-900 is an enlarged version of the A380-800 model, which is now on test flights and due to enter commercial service around November
this year for Singapore Airlines. The A380-900 model could take to the skies in 2012.
"The development of the [stretched A380] aircraft will depend on market demand. There are already some customers asking for that type of aircraft," said Charles ...