Install Snow Leopard on a 2013 MacBook Air

Hello.
I'm quite interested in buying a 2013 MacBook Air.
as far as I'm aware, that Mac model will have OS X Mavericks unstalled, but, due to work related circunstances, I would like to create a partition, and to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on that partition. Basically, i would liek to make a dual boot: Snow Leopard / Mavericks.
Question: Is it possible to install Snow Leopard on a 2013 MacBook Air?!
(And yes, I'm aware that Snow Leopard doesn't bring most of Mavericks functions!)
Thank you for any hel you may provide me.
All the best!

Running PowerPC apps in Snow Leopard installed into Parallels for use in Mavericks:
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More information here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

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