In the late80s/early 90s, Nurtanio in Bandung in Indonesia designed and built a 50 seat commuter aircraft. I seem to remember that Lockheed gave technical assistance, and a large contribution came from contract design staff in the UK. I recall that maybe the prototype flew, but technical problems meant that a major redesign was required. Were any others completed, and what is the status of this program
By: wieesso - 1st November 2011 at 06:58
“PA1, the 50 seat first prototype, first flew on August 10 1995, while PA2, the first N-250-100 development aircraft, began test flying in 1997. Work on a third prototype had virtually come to a complete stop by late 1998 and plans to build a fourth have been scrapped.” http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/stats.main?id=257
A bit confusing is that both ac N250-50 and N250-100 had the same reg no PK-XNG
Here is a picture of a IPTN N250 fuselage (maybe a mockup) from 2007
http://i.planepictures.net/61/92/1178182158.jpg
and a picture from the first ac 1995
http://crimso.msk.ru/Images6/AV/AV02-1/28-1.jpg
By: wieesso - 1st November 2011 at 06:58
“PA1, the 50 seat first prototype, first flew on August 10 1995, while PA2, the first N-250-100 development aircraft, began test flying in 1997. Work on a third prototype had virtually come to a complete stop by late 1998 and plans to build a fourth have been scrapped.” http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/stats.main?id=257
A bit confusing is that both ac N250-50 and N250-100 had the same reg no PK-XNG
Here is a picture of a IPTN N250 fuselage (maybe a mockup) from 2007
http://i.planepictures.net/61/92/1178182158.jpg
and a picture from the first ac 1995
http://crimso.msk.ru/Images6/AV/AV02-1/28-1.jpg
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