Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd’s (HAL) key indigenous products HTT-40 (Basic Trainer Aircraft), the first indigenously upgraded Hawk Mk132, named the Hawk-i, Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) and the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) will fly at the 11th edition of Aero India 2017.
The country’s premier air show, Aero India 2017, is scheduled from February 14-18, 2017.
“HAL is geared up to display recent advancements in fixed and rotary wing segments,” said T Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL.
The main attraction of HAL’s indoor pavilion spread over an area of over 1,282 square meters is a mock-up of the Indian Multi Role Helicopter (IMRH).
The pavilion seeks to promote HAL’s excellence in technical, research and operational areas in line with its stature as India’s largest defence organisation.
“Visitors will get an opportunity to know about the Advanced Hawk, which will be kept on display in front of the HAL stall. Also, at the static display, the HTT-40, upgraded Jaguar and Mirage 2000, LCH and LUH would be crowd-pullers,” added Raju.
In addition, customer demonstration flights would be held for the ALH Mk III Dhruv and Mk IV (Rudra). HAL will also hold business meetings with OEMs and sign agreements and contracts with business partners for various projects during the Aero India -2017.