{"id":75,"date":"2011-02-11T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=75"},"modified":"2011-02-11T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:24:58","slug":"get-your-own-plane-for-just-rs2-92-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Get your own plane for just Rs2.92 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: Travelling in your own private aircraft is now within reach with Mahindra Aerospace Private Limited\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (MAPL) launching its GA8-TC Airvan.<br \/>\nThe domestic aerospace company has started sale of this 5-seater turbo-charged aircraft at $6,50,000 (approximately Rs2.92 crore).<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will cost you only 30%-40% more than travelling in a high-end AC car, and will cut down your travelling time significantly,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Hemant Luthra, president, systech sector, Mahindra and Mahindra.<br \/>\nThe basic version of the Airvan has got all the airworthiness certification in India.<br \/>\nLuthra said the company, which has begun manufacturing civil aircraft in Australia, will start its India operations in the next two years.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We will set up our aircraft factory in India by 2014 after which our aircraft will be made here. It is a two-step process. We have bought the land where we will start making the aircraft components. Once that has begun, we can start getting certifications &#8211; We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re building planes with the highest standard of FAR23 safety,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>\nSince MAPL has already got certifications for its aircraft in Australia, it will make it easier for it to get the green signal in India.<br \/>\n11\/02\/11 Supriya Ghorpade\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/bangalore\/report_aero-india-2011-get-your-own-plane-for-just-rs2-92-crore_1506209\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News &amp; Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: Travelling in your own private aircraft is now within reach with Mahindra Aerospace Private Limited\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (MAPL) launching its GA8-TC Airvan. The domestic aerospace company has started sale of this 5-seater turbo-charged aircraft at $6,50,000 (approximately Rs2.92 crore). \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will cost you only 30%-40% more than travelling in a high-end AC car, and will cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,7],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ga8-tc","tag-mahindra-aerospace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}