{"id":430516,"date":"2021-08-13T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T04:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430516"},"modified":"2021-08-13T11:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:43:43","slug":"lca-mk-1a-to-take-first-flight-by-march-says-hal-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lca-mk-1a-to-take-first-flight-by-march-says-hal-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"LCA Mk-1A to take first flight by March, says HAL chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run plane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has set a March 2022 deadline to carry out the first flight of the LCA (light combat aircraft) Mk-1A jet after wrapping up the necessary design activities, HAL chairman R Madhavan said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>HAL will also next week announce a multimillion-dollar engine deal with US firm GE Aviation for 99 F404 engines to power India\u2019s latest indigenous fighter, he said. The developments come six months after the defence ministry awarded a \u20b948,000-crore contract to HAL for 83 LCA Mk-1A jets for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The first Mk-1A aircraft will be delivered to the air force by March 2024, with the rest slated to join its combat fleet by 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run plane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has set a March 2022 deadline to carry out the first flight of the LCA (light combat aircraft) Mk-1A jet after wrapping up the necessary design activities, HAL chairman R Madhavan said on Thursday. HAL will also next week announce a multimillion-dollar engine deal with US firm GE Aviation for 99 F404 engines to power India\u2019s latest indigenous fighter, he said. The developments come six months after the defence ministry awarded a \u20b948,000-crore contract to HAL for 83 LCA Mk-1A jets for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The first Mk-1A aircraft will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}