South African company Micro Aviation and Pune-based Maxlink India have entered into a technical collaboration to manufacture the Bat Hawk microlight aircraft in India. Micro Aviation will be licensing the technology to Maxlink for manufacturing.
Maxlink director Vijay Sethi said the microlight segment was an ignored category though it was suitable and affordable for a variety applications in a country like India. He said microlights were popular with hobbyists but apart from adventure sport these were capable of handling serious applications like surveillance by defence, police, coastguard and forest guards, vegetation mapping, farm spraying and disaster relief. “It is capable of performing like a helicopter at fraction of the cost,”
