Top speed 268 km/h Length 7.21 m | Wingspan 9.2 m | |
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Dastaan e bharat swati
The Bharat Swati (or sometimes BHEL Swati) is an Indian two-seat training monoplane designed by the Technical Centre of Directorate General of Civil Aviation and built by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.
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Design and development
The Swati is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a steel tube fuselage covered in fabric at the rear and composite material at the front. It has metal tail surfaces and wooden wings and a fixed landing gear with a steerable nosewheel. The Swati has a 116 hp (87 kW) Lycoming O-235 piston engine at the front driving a two-bladed propeller. Directorate General of Civil Aviation ordered 40 to be distributed to civil flying clubs in India.
Variants
Specifications
Data from Brassey's World Aircraft & Systems Directory 1996
General characteristics
Performance
Incidents and Accidents
On 3 June 1993 a Swati aircraft registration number VT-STC being test flown at Haridwar crashed when its starboard wing broke off after coming out of a loop killing the test pilot.
On 29 November 2001 a Swati LT II aircraft registration number VT-STO of the Kerala Aviation Training Centre on a training flight at Tiruvanantpuram crashed due to pilot error destroying the aircraft.