Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) R. Madhvan claimed confidence of bagging 15 limited series production of Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) and request for quotation (RFQ) for the Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 (HTT-40), an Indian training aircraft. Earlier, HAL also bagged Rs. 48,000 crore deal from the Indian Air Force to supply 83 Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas MK 1A.
“The proposal for LCH procurement is expected go to the Cabinet committee of security soon and as far as HTT-40 is concerned, the RFQ is being vetted”, said Madhavan at the 13th edition of Aero Indian Show 2021. He added that HAL would be signing agreement to manufacture Tejas MK 1 and it would take 9 years to complete the deal of supplying 83 aircraft.
