Chennai/ Bangalore August 19, 2011, 0:02 IST
The public sector defence lab, National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), is looking for more private sector partners to commerialise its research. The lab is presently in advanced stages of commercialising its domestically-designed single-engine five-seater general aviation aircraft jointly with Mahindra Aerospace Pvt Ltd (MAPL).
“We want to engage the private sector for many more projects under the public private partnership model. In fact, we have not succeeded in getting any private sector company to partner us for commercialising Hansa, a light passenger aircraft. But, we have Mahindra Group participating with us for NM5-100, a five-seater aircraft. We are now looking for private sector to partner us to commercialise Micro Air Vehicles (MAV),” A R Upadhya, director, NAL said.
NAL also recently signed an agreement with the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to commercially manufacture Saras, a light passenger aircraft, he said.
Addressing a press conference after the CSIRNAL Foundation Day celebrations, he said, NAL wants to commercialise more and more technologies developed by it over the last few years. The experimental aerodynamics division of NAL, which is jointly headed by G Ramesh, developed the MAV over the last three years.
19/08/11 Business Standard
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