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The CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bengaluru, launched a “production version” of the indigenous Hansa-3(NG) trainer craft connected Saturday (November 29, 2025). Mumbai-registered M/s Pioneer Clean Amps, which volition manufacture the two-seater planes, has reportedly commenced manufacturing. It has acceptable up a ₹150 crore installation successful Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, to marque 100 craft annually.
The Hansa-3 has an all-composite airframe (as opposed to purely metal), and is designed to conscionable the expanding request for PPL (Private Pilot License) and CPL (Commercial Pilot License) training. First designed and developed by the CSIR-NAL successful the aboriginal 1990s, the latest iteration of the Hansa-3 has undergone important upgrades. This April, the NAL signed a woody with Pioneer for manufacturing the planes.
Science curate Jitendra Singh presided implicit the inaugural relation successful Bengaluru to merchandise the accumulation program connected Saturday (November 29, 2025). He said that India would request astir 30,000 pilots successful the adjacent 15–20 years, and Hansa-3(NG) represented a “critical step” towards fulfilling this home request done afloat indigenous technology, reducing dependence connected overseas trainer aircraft, and creating caller avenues of livelihood and entrepreneurship successful aviation.
CSIR-NAL is moving connected a 19-seater Light Transport Aircraft SARAS Mk 2 for some civilian and subject operations. With a pressurised cabin, integer avionics, solid cockpit, autopilot, command-by-wire formation controls, and important value and resistance reduction, the craft would bolster determination connectivity and code India’s indigenous short-haul rider craft requirement, an accompanying property connection noted.
Dr. Singh besides inaugurated the Iron Bird Facility for SARAS Mk 2, describing it arsenic a “crucial platform” for full-system integration, crushed testing, and validation of large craft subsystems. He noted that specified facilities importantly trim flight-testing risks and accelerate improvement timelines, enabling engineers to place and resoluteness plan and bundle issues early. The Minister besides inaugurated a dedicated manufacturing installation for High Altitude Platforms (HAPs), India’s inaugural to articulation a prime league of nations, processing solar-powered unmanned craft susceptible of flying supra 20 km altitude for long-endurance missions.
