{"id":2694,"date":"2023-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/28-02-2023\/hindustan-228-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:59:59","slug":"hindustan-228-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/28-02-2023\/hindustan-228-aircraft","title":{"rendered":"Hindustan 228 Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

In News<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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  • Recently, the <\/span><\/span><\/span>Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>approved a new variant of the <\/span><\/span><\/span>Hindustan 228-201 LW Aircraft.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    About\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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    • Features: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>This variant of the Hindustan 228-201 LW aircraft has a maximum take-off weight of 5,695 kg with 19 passenger<\/span><\/span><\/span>s.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    • Developed by<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    • HAL is building civil aircrafts to promote the <\/span><\/span><\/span>UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) Scheme.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    • HAL is a<\/span><\/span><\/span> public-sector aircraft manufacturing compan<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>y. It has also made the <\/span><\/span><\/span>Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span> for the Indian Air Force (IAF).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Significance<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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      • Operational Benefits: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0This variant provides several operational benefits for operators, such as\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n
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        • reduced pilot qualification requirements <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>enabling pilots with Commercial Pilot Licence to fly the aircraft,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
        • enhanced availability of pilot pool for the aircraft<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
        • r<\/span><\/span><\/span>educed operational cost<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
        • reduced training requirements for flying and ground crew,<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span> including aircraft maintenance engineers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        • It will <\/span><\/span><\/span>promote the UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) Scheme.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
        • UDAN scheme<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n
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          • Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) was launched as a regional connectivity scheme under the <\/span><\/span><\/span>Ministry of Civil Aviation in 2016<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
          • It is an innovative scheme to develop the regional Aviation market.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
          • The central government aims to set up 1,000 new air routes and establish 100 new airports, under the UDAN scheme.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Source: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>TH<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            In News Recently, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) approved a new variant of the Hindustan 228-201 LW Aircraft. About\u00a0 Features: This variant of the Hindustan 228-201 LW aircraft has a maximum take-off weight of 5,695 kg with 19 passengers. Developed by: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). HAL is building civil aircrafts to promote the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[40,26],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-defence","tag-gs-3"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/3784902Screenshot_6.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}