Hyderabad: India’s plan to build a passenger aircraft is finally taking shape. It is likely to finalise the specifications in three months, according to an official at the ministry of civil aviation.
“The specifications will be decided in about three months. There are also things to be firmed up, like whether we should use a turbo jet or a turbo-prop engine. The effort is to build a passenger aircraft with 70 to 100-passenger capacity,” according to G Ashok Kumar, joint secretary, MoCA.
The plan to make the passenger aircraft was approved by a high-level committee on manufacturing last year.
“It might take seven to eight years for the prototype to be ready,” Kumar said, adding that public sector enterprises HAL and NAL would be involved in the project. A special purpose vehicle will be formed for the project, he said.
This is about the same time when India is expected to double its fleet size in 2020. According to the Ficci-KPMG India Aviation report, India had a fleet of 400 aircraft and it would add as many aircraft in the six years in view of the growing passenger and cargo traffic.
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“The specifications will be decided in about three months. There are also things to be firmed up, like whether we should use a turbo jet or a turbo-prop engine. The effort is to build a passenger aircraft with 70 to 100-passenger capacity,” according to G Ashok Kumar, joint secretary, MoCA.
The plan to make the passenger aircraft was approved by a high-level committee on manufacturing last year.
“It might take seven to eight years for the prototype to be ready,” Kumar said, adding that public sector enterprises HAL and NAL would be involved in the project. A special purpose vehicle will be formed for the project, he said.
This is about the same time when India is expected to double its fleet size in 2020. According to the Ficci-KPMG India Aviation report, India had a fleet of 400 aircraft and it would add as many aircraft in the six years in view of the growing passenger and cargo traffic.
14/03/14 B Krishna Mohan/mydigitalfc.com
