Aero Show: Sukhoi Set For Hyderabad

January 10, 2012

[size=4][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left]HYDERABAD: Short-range passenger aircraft[/left][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sukhoi"]Sukhoi[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left] SuperJet 100 (SSJ 100), a corporate jet from France and a host of other aircraft, choppers and beechcraft will enthrall people at the third [/left][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Edition"]edition[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left] of India Aviation-2012 to be held at the Begumpet airport between March 14 and 18. [/left][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left]The last two days of the expo would be open for public. However, this time there would be no aerobatics in the wake of the accident that killed two Navy pilots in 2010. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (Ficci), Delhi, is organising the exhibition and aviation companies from across the world would display their [/left][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Flying-Machines"]flying machines[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left] during the five-day exhibition. [/left][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left]"The United Aircraft Corporation has agreed to put [/left][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sukhoi-SuperJet-100"]Sukhoi SuperJet-100[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left], designed to carry 98 passengers, on display at the expo. The SuperJet will land on March 17 and will fly out the next day," Ficci assistant secretary general (exhibition & trades) Vinay Shanka Mathur told TOI on phone. [/left][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left]France-based [/left][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Airbus"]Airbus[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left] would unveil its 156-passenger capacity corporate jet, A 319. It is a slightly smaller version of Airbus-320 cornerstone single-aisle jetliner, he added. [/left][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left]Leading aeronautics firm Piaggio Aero Industries Spa would send its product, P 180 Avanti II, the fastest and most advanced executive/multi-utility turboprop in the world, he added. [/left][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left]Other international and national aviation companies including Bombardier, [/left][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Canada"]Canada[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left] (CRJ Jets),[/left][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dassault-Aviation"]Dassault Aviation[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left], France, ( [/left][/font][/color][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Falcon-(musician)"]Falcon[/url][color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left]), Embraer, Brazil (Exectuive Jets-Phenom 100, 300 and Legacy 650,) Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, US, Hawker Beechcraft, US (Hawker 900, King Air 350 and Hawker 4,000), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore (Hansa, NM5 and Saras) have also confirmed their participation, the Ficci official said. [/left][/font][/color]

[color=#3F3F3F][font=georgia][left]This year, UK would be the 'Partner Country', France 'Focus Country' and the US as the 'Guest Country'.[/left][/font][/color][/size]

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