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September 16, 2001
   
The Swiss trading company Noga, owed $495 million by the Russian government, obtained French court orders to seize two Russian aircraft (an Su-30 fighter and a MiG-AT trainer) at the Paris Air Show. The aircraft took off for home on 22 June just hours before Noga lawyers could reach LeBourget airfield.--Stephen V Cole