First fully modified aircraft for indigenous Airborne
Early Warning and Control Systems landed on Indian soil at Centre for
Airborne Systems (CABS), Bangalore, a DRDO laboratory) at HAL airport on
yesterday. Aircraft was received by enthusiastic crowd from CABS, its
work centers, Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification
(CEMILAC) and IAF members. The aircraft and the flight crew was received
by Dr Christopher, Program Director and Dr K Tamil Mani, Chief
Executive, CEMILAC. The aircraft and its crew from Indian Air Force and
M/s Embraer were given a hearty welcome with water cannon.
The acceptance of the Aircraft was completed over a period of 15 days at
Embraer Facilities in Brazil, by a team from CABS, its work centres,
CEMILAC, DGAQA & IAF.
The Aircraft was flagged off from M/s Embraer, Brazil on 17 Aug 2012 by
Shri G Elangovan, Chief Controller R&D, Dr S Christopher, Programme
Director, Mr K Tamil Mani, Chief Executive, CEMILAC and team members and
was flown across multiple continents to arrive in India. The Aircraft
ferried with several mission system external components of DRDO
including the Active Electronically scanned Array Antenna with passive
electronics fitted on the Aircraft.
The arrival of this Aircraft marks the beginning of another phase of
journey leading to the next major milestone of integration of the DRDO
developed mission system, which will be followed by development flight
trials in India beginning of 2013.
It may be noted that this is the first Aircraft delivered by M/s Embraer
for which the contract was signed in 2008. The next Aircraft is
expected to arrive in December 2012.
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