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The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) person signed a Memorandum of Understanding for accumulation of civilian commuter craft SJ-100.
The SJ-100 is simply a twin-engine, narrow-body craft and arsenic connected date, much than 200 craft person been produced and are being operated by much than 16 commercialized hose operators.
HAL said that the SJ-100 volition beryllium a crippled changer for short-haul connectivity nether the UDAN Scheme successful India. Under this arrangement, HAL volition person the rights to manufacture SJ-100 craft for home customers.
Aircraft to beryllium afloat produced successful India
“This collaboration betwixt HAL and UAC is the effect of communal spot betwixt the organisations. This volition besides beryllium the archetypal lawsuit wherein a implicit rider craft volition beryllium produced successful India. The past specified task was HAL’s accumulation of AVRO HS-748, which started successful 1961 and ended successful 1988,” HAL said.
It further added that it is estimated that implicit the adjacent 10 years, the Indian aviation assemblage volition necessitate implicit 200 jets successful this class for determination connectivity and an further 350 craft for the Indian Ocean portion to service adjacent planetary tourer destinations.
“The manufacturing of the SJ-100 craft marks the opening of a caller section successful the past of the Indian aviation industry. It’s a measurement towards fulfilling the imagination of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ successful the civilian aviation sector. Manufacturing volition besides fortify the backstage assemblage and make nonstop and indirect jobs successful the aviation industry,” the Bengaluru headquartered PSU said.
The MoU was signed successful Moscow, Russia, connected October 27, 2025 by Prabhat Ranjan from HAL and Oleg Bogomolov from UAC.
