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India's HAL signs two pacts with global aviation firms

BANGALORE, India, Feb 8 (AFP) - 15:06 GMT - India's largest aircraft maker,
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), said Thursday it had signed two deals with
foreign firms to manufacture engines for jet trainers and to build a
transport aircraft.
HAL chief C.G. Krishnadas Nair said the company had entered into a pact with
the French aerospace company Snecma for its Larzac engines to power the
intermediate jet trainers.
"We have also signed another deal with a Russian consortium of Ilyshun and
Irkutsk Aviation Industrial Association for 100-seater transport aircraft,"
Nair told AFP.
The intermediate trainers will replace the Indian Air Force's existing Kiran
aircraft.
"The first prototype will fly next year and it will be inducted by the
Indian Air Force by 2005. The IAF has placed an order for 225 such trainers
but we are looking for some more partners for other components and systems,"
Nair said.
He said the trainers would be 30 percent to 40 percent cheaper than those
available in the global market.
The HAL chief said his company had also signed a memorandum of understanding
with the Russian consortium for 100-seater transport aircraft.
"The aviation market in Asia is set for a boom this decade. China and India
account for 1.7 percent and 1.5 percent of the global travel market. With a
small increase in the gross domestic product we see a substantial spurt in
this sector," Nair said.

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