Nine years after the fatal accident that paralysed the project, the Saras got airborne once again and rekindled hope of revival of the indigenous civil aircraft programme
On January 24 this year, a prototype of the Saras, the country’s first indigenously developed civil aircraft in the light transport aircraft (LTA) category, took to the skies at Bengaluru. Developed by National Aeronautics Laboratories (NAL) under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the twin-engine, 14-seater aircraft with test pilots and flight engineer from the Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment (ASTE) of the Indian Air Force (IAF) as the crew on board, got airborne from the airport at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for a test flight that lasted for 40 minutes.
The Saras has had a troubled history of development. The origin of the project to develop this aircraft lay in a feasibility study carried out by NAL in 1989 which indicated that there was a significant demand in the country for a 14-seat, multi-role LTA and estimated a market potential of around 350 aircraft over a decade. And now with the thrust on Regional Aviation and the launch of the Regional Connectivity Scheme, the demand in the Indian airline industry for this category of aircraft is expected to be considerably higher.
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