Two days after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath declared that the Uttar Pradesh government would purchase Dornier civil aircraft, the HAL on Thursday received the modification document from Director General of Civil Aviation for its Dornier-228 civil aircraft.
The document was handed over to state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd by DGCA Joint Director General G Rajshekhar during the ongoing DefExpo-2020 in Lucknow.
Two civil Do-228 aircraft were produced by the aeronautical agency for launch under regional connectivity scheme UDAN. But to meet the prospective operator’s requirement of a transport aircraft flyable under commercial pilot licence, their maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) had to be reduced from 6,200kg.