PARIS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Airbus said on

Wednesday it had delivered 507 jets in the first nine months,

leaving 313 more airplanes to deliver in the fourth quarter to

reach a full-year target of around 820.

The world's largest planemaker confirmed a Reuters report

that it had delivered 73 jets in September, a record for that

month of the year, in a sign of improved engine supplies.

An Airbus spokesperson said the number of so-called gliders,

or otherwise fully assembled aircraft parked on the ground

waiting for their engines, had fallen from a peak of 60

announced earlier this year, but did not give a new figure.

The jump in September deliveries from 50 in the same month

last year and the drop in the number of gliders suggest that

engine arrivals have sped up in recent weeks, after being

impacted by a recent strike at supplier CFM as

well as competing demand for spare engines from airlines.