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| | A soaring success |
 | | Named Saras, after the Indian crane known for its grace and beauty in flight, it is a Light Transport Aircraft (LTA), with the design objective of being able to carry between eight and 14 passengers and extendable to an 18-passenger variant, in multiple modes of operation. |
 | | Before Saras, only two aircraft are known to have used the concept: the Gates Learjet-Piaggio P.180 Avanti, an Italian 8-10 seater executive aircraft, and the Beech Starship 2000, an American 18-20 seater aircraft, both during the 1980s. |
 | | Among the major assemblies in the prototype, NAL was responsible for the fabrication of the fairing, the flap, the aileron, the rudder, the elevator and the nacelle, HAL for the wing, TAAL for the horizontal tail, the vertical tail and the stub wing. |
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