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August 19, 2014: India's first indigenous civilian aircraft, the 14-seater push-prop SARAS could get back into the air any day now. After a five-year grounding following a devastating March 2009 crash that killed its there-man IAF test crew, the National Aerospace Laboratory, in coordination with the IAF's Aircraft & Systems Testing Establishment (ASTE) are undersood to be confident of a first flight before Diwali this year. As reported earlier by SP's, the ASTE had begun ground trials of the modified PT1N platform around December last year, and has undergone a rigorous routine of ground handling, turning and taxi trials, including static systems trials. Former NAL chief and aerospace guru Prof. Roddam Narasimha recently spoke out about the various programmes, and said that the proposed the Regional Transport Aircraft (RTA) could spearhead a much needed new wave in Indian capabilities alongside the Saras. "It should be a turbo-prop aircraft, executed in a public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode, preferably as part of a global consortium, and should be viewed as a common “civil-military” platform that would also address the transport aircraft needs of the Indian Air Force in terms of the Avro and AN-32 replacements, thus generating the numbers and associated economic viability needed to make it successful," he said.
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Saras ready to take off again
- SP's MAI
 
August 19, 2014: India's first indigenous civilian aircraft, the 14-seater push-prop SARAS could get back into the air any day now. After a five-year grounding following a devastating March 2009 crash that killed its there-man IAF test crew, the National Aerospace Laboratory, in coordination with the IAF's Aircraft & Systems Testing Establishment (ASTE) are undersood to be confident of a first flight before Diwali this year. As reported earlier by SP's, the ASTE had begun ground trials of the modified PT1N platform around December last year, and has undergone a rigorous routine of ground handling, turning and taxi trials, including static systems trials. Former NAL chief and aerospace guru Prof. Roddam Narasimha recently spoke out about the various programmes, and said that the proposed the Regional Transport Aircraft (RTA) could spearhead a much needed new wave in Indian capabilities alongside the Saras. "It should be a turbo-prop aircraft, executed in a public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode, preferably as part of a global consortium, and should be viewed as a common “civil-military” platform that would also address the transport aircraft needs of the Indian Air Force in terms of the Avro and AN-32 replacements, thus generating the numbers and associated economic viability needed to make it successful," he said.
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Saras ready to take off again
- SP's MAI

Are there any confirmed customers for this type of Aircraft & we should really put more money in Aircraft development
 
Hehehe..... saras still alive, i was thinking its already dead:D
 
Are there any confirmed customers for this type of Aircraft & we should really put more money in Aircraft development

IAF, IN, maybe ICG, but that's it and we will find it difficult to find customers for it, at least in the defence fields.
 
Height of *********, they develop avionics for Saras and integrate it in Do228 and sold it to ICG on numbers.
 
Perhaps some small domestic airlines too

Too small for airlines I would say, it's more like a small business jet, the Piaggio P180 is maybe the most comparable aircraft and also gives a hint of possible export potential.
 
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