NAL, Bangalore plans to build 70-seater aircraft

New Delhi: The National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, a unit under Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is planning to build technology for a 50-70 seater 'regional' aircraft within the country to suit India specific needs.
The latest aviation technology will be used or developed to build an aircraft which would be very light, fuel efficient and be able to land and take off from the typical Indian airfields which have very short or semi prepared runways and minimally equipped airfields.
Director NAL AR Upadhya talking to Hindustan Times from Bangalore said that a Rs 1200 crore preliminary proposal for building these aircrafts has been prepared.
A national effort involving many other aerospace organisations would be undertaken in a public-private partnership mode with major industry sharing the cost and risk during its development, production and marketing.
"We have already set the model for public private partnership with a collaboration agreement with Mahindra Plexion Technologies for a 4-5 seater multi role aircraft for executive transport and other roles."
The market for 50-70 seater turbo prop aircraft according to Upadhya will increase over the next two and a half decade with India requiring nearly 200 aircrafts of various sizes in the next five years.
18/02/07 Satyen Mohapatra/Hindustan Times

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