NEW DELHI: India’s indigenous light transport aircraft SARAS has been successfully test flown for a second time on Wednesday.
The flight commanded by Wing Commander UP Singh, Group Captain RV Panicker and Group Captain KP Bhat of Indian Air Force- Aircraft and System Testing Establishment, took off from HAL’s airport in Bengaluru for a text book flight.
This was the second of the 20 test flights planned for SARAS PT1N, before freezing the production version, Ministry of Science & Technology said in a statement here. The first successful test was carried out on January 24, this year. The design and development of the aircraft is being done by CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, NAL.
According to NAL, the production model design is expected to be ready by June-July this year. (AGENCIES)