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On 4 November 1981 the chairmen of Aeritalia and Aérospatiale signed in Paris the cooperation agreement that launched the ATR programme and its first aircraft, the ATR 42.

The first ATR 42 took off from Toulouse on 16 August 1984, 33 months after Aérospatiale and Aeritalia signed the ATR agreement.

ATR handed the first production ATR 42-300 to French launch customer Air Littoral on 3 December 1985, ten weeks after the type was certified by the French and Italian authorities.

The stretched ATR 72 flew for the first time from ATR's Toulouse facility on 27 October 1988, almost three years after the programme was announced in January 1986.

Finnair received the first ATR 72 on 27 October 1989, a month after French certification, and became the first airline to operate the 66-seat stretch.

ATR handed over the first two ATR 72-600s, the new "-600" series with a five-screen glass cockpit and Armonia cabin, to launch operator Royal Air Maroc in Toulouse on 19 August 2011.

A partially configured ATR 42-600S short take-off and landing prototype flew for 2 hours 15 minutes from Francazal airport on 11 May 2022, with the final larger rudder to be added by year-end.

On 13 November 2024 ATR said it would end development of the ATR 42-600S short-take-off variant, citing a smaller market and supply-chain problems, after 20 commitments and a 2022 first flight.