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The company developed a new fuselage for the TNT and TPE 331–5 in two variants (15- and 19-passenger) and named both project-aircraft E-1 (later Dornier 228-100) and E-2 (later Dornier 228-200). At the ILA Berlin Air Show in 1980, Dornier presented the new aircraft to the public. Both of the prototypes were flown on 28 March 1981 and 9 May ...
Indian Air Force – operates 53 Dornier 228-201. [4] Indian Navy – operates 26 Dornier 228-201 and have 12 on order. [4] [9] Indian Coast Guard - operates 36 Dornier 228-201. DRDO – 1 Dornier 228 “Nabhratna” used as a flying test bed by LRDE [10] Italy. Italian Army Aviation - 3 [11] [12] Malawi. Military of Malawi – 3 [4] Maldives
The aircraft involved was a Dornier 228-212 registered as 9N-AIG. It was built by Dornier Flugzeugwerke in 1997 and was operated by Hornbill Skyways before being purchased by Agni Air in 2008. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Images shared online showed security and rescue personnel on the crash site on a hillside with debris scattered around the tail of the Dornier 228-202K military transport plane, its tail number ...
The aircraft involved, manufactured in 1987, [3] was a Dornier 228-228(K) which belonged to the Malawi Air Force.The aircraft had accumulated 3,492 flight hours. [4] It had previously been used to transport President Lazarus Chakwera several times and had conducted its previous flight hours before the crash.
The Dornier Do 212 was a four-seat experimental amphibian flying boat built by the Swiss subsidiary of Dornier, in Altenrhein on Lake Constance. Design was initiated in 1938 by the German and Swiss branches, the latter being responsible for the actual construction of the prototype .
In December 2007, RUAG announced its intention to launch a modernized version of the Dornier 228, which it designated as the Dornier 228 Next Generation, or Dornier 228 NG. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] At the 2008 Berlin Air Show , HAL agreed to supply the first three component sets — fuselage, wings and tail — for €5 million, as a part of an € ...
On 24 November 2019, a Dornier 228-201 twin turboprop aircraft, operated by local carrier Busy Bee Congo, crashed shortly after takeoff from Goma International Airport in a densely populated section of the city, killing 21 of the 22 on board and 6 on the ground. It is the deadliest accident involving the Dornier 228. [1] [2] [3] [4]