Five seat civilian aircraft expected to be test flown by 2012

Bangalore: The five-seater civilian aircraft, NM-5, jointly developed by Mahindra Aerospace and National Aerospace Limited (NAL) is expected to be test-flown by mid 2012.
"We have already finished the design part and NM-5 is expected to be test-flown by mid 2012," Mahindra Systech President Hemant Luthra told reporters here.
Mahindra Systech is the holding company of Mahindra Aerospace.
The NM5 is India's first indigenously developed civilian aircraft by a private entity.
NM-5 is a multi-role and multi-mission aircraft capable of taking off and landing on unpaved runways and can be used for air taxi, charter operation, ferrying people and cargo
services.
The company is building two prototypes - one at NAL and the second at the facility of Gippsland Aeronautics of Australia, now part of Mahindra Aerospace.
18/08/11 Zee News

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