NAL Making Progress On Light Transport

Already having delivered ten Hansa two-place turboprop trainers, National Aerospace Labs in Bangalore, India, is says it's making fast progress on the prototype of its twin-pusher, the Saras.
NAL markets its Hansa trainers to all segments of the student market.
Director A.R. Upadhya is also working on four- and six-place aircraft in conjunction with Mahindra Plexion.
But the effort to develop a 14-passenger transport should yield an Indian flight certificate sometime in 2009, he said, quoted on the website Domain-B.
But here's the kicker: NAL is now working on a regional jet it says will be lighter and more fuel efficient than those currently under development in Canada, Europe and China.
07/10/07 Aero-News Network, US

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