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Show 2500 AIRPLANES ARE SHIPPED TO FRANCE By Aossclstsd Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Production of American aircraft has now reached a singe where It le being limited practically only by facilities (or transporting the airplanes air-planes to France. The production f 1.1b- J erty motors during October reached at st a go of one t hou sa n d a w ee k, a goa I whii-h had not been hoped for, at least I until December. The latest official com pits none snow ' that eince June 1, approximately J.00 I fighting airplanes of all descriptions have i been shipped to the American forces In j France, when It Is realised none of the belligerents at any one time since the be- I J inning of the war haa had more than MM airplanes actually In service, the sir- 1 n i flea nee of an A merlran product ion of 2&O0 planes In five montha teet-omea ap- I parent. These S'.oo plunes Included nearly one hundred and fifty heavy bombers and j the remainder were planes of all clasaesi 1 Including observation machlnee and day i bombers, |