India can have 90-seater aircraft prototype ready in five years
02 Jul 2011
New Delhi: India can have a prototype of a indigenously developed, 90-seater regional transport aircraft (RTA) ready in the next five years, a top scientist from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has said.
According to CSIR director general, Samir Brahmachari, the 90-seater RTA will be developed as a Team India-initiative, led by CSIR, constituent, the National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL).
The project would also invite some global participation, Samir Brahmachari said.
A committee headed by former ISRO chairman, G Madhavan Nair, submitted a feasibility study to CSIR recently in this regard.
The committee, composed of top bureaucrats and aerospace scientists, has suggested a two-pronged approach - design development and production unit - to realise the objective.
"The Committee has come to a conclusion that the RTA should be a narrow body, turbo-fan aircraft with a seating capacity for 70-90 persons and stretchable to 80-100 persons," Brahmachari said.
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