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A Civil Air Patrol GA8 Airvan on takeoff from West Houston Airport during a mission following Hurricane Rita in 2005.. The parent Mahindra & Mahindra group acquired a 75.1% majority stake in December 2009 of Australian aircraft manufacturer Gippsland Aeronautics, builder of the Gippsland GA200, Gippsland GA8 Airvan and the Gippsland GA10 Airvan.
The factory expanded rapidly and became the centre for major overhaul and repair of American aircraft and was known as the 84th Air Depot. The first aircraft to be overhauled was a Consolidated PBY Catalina followed by every type of aircraft operated in India and Burma. When returned to Indian control two years later the factory had become one ...
The IAF needs the aircraft to be operable from unprepared runways like India’s Advanced Landing Ground (ALGs) in Ladakh and the Northeast India. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] As for the local manufacturing of the aircraft, on 9 February, Embraer announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mahindra Defence Systems to bid for the MTA tender.
The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) under Department of Defence Research and Development (DR&D) of India's Ministry of Defence was established at Bangalore, in 1984 to oversee the development of the nation's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme.
The Aero Club of India was established in 1927 and the Madras Flying Club in 1930. [4] [5] On 15 October 1932, Indian aviator J. R. D. Tata flew a Puss Moth aircraft carrying mail from Karachi to Juhu aerodrome, Bombay; and the aircraft continued to Madras, marking the beginning of Tata Airlines which later became Air India, the flag carrier in ...
The Combat Aircraft Systems Development & Integration Centre (CASDIC) is a laboratory of the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). [1] Located in Bangalore , Karnataka , India , [ 2 ] It is one of the two DRDO laboratories involved in the research and development of airborne electronic warfare and mission avionics systems.
India utility: 95 [15] HAL Light Utility Helicopter: India utility 6 on order [31] Alouette III: France/India liaison Chetak: 79 [15] license-built by HAL. A fleet of around 120 aircraft. [32] Cheetal: 18 [33] SA 315B Lama: France/India utility Cheetah: 18 [15] Trainer Aircraft; BAE Hawk: United Kingdom Advanced trainer: Hawk 132: 102 [15] HAL ...
The radar development began in 2012 and its full-scale model was displayed at the 2017 Aero India air show and aviation exhibition. [2] A fully functional active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar prototype was unveiled at Aero India 2019, the prototype was mounted inside the glass nose of a HAL Tejas prototype.