The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has approved a new variant of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s aircraft ‘Hindustan 228-201LW’, HAL announced on Monday.
What is HAL’s Hindustan-228?
HAL made several modifications to the aircraft. With the modification, the aircraft will fall into the sub-5,700 kg aircraft category, it said. This version has a maximum take-off weight of 5,695 kg with a 19-passenger capacity, Bengaluru-headquartered HAL said in a statement.
HAL said, “This variant offers several operational benefits to operators such as reduced pilot qualification requirement enabling pilots with commercial pilot license to fly the aircraft, increased pilot pool availability for the aircraft and reduced operational cost.” “
In addition, the new version would result in reduction of training requirements for flight and ground crew, including aircraft maintenance engineers, it was said.
(with PTI inputs)
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