full article here. Note that the Rekkof website has been updated. The front page shows a wingletted F10o.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1052646
Cades Digitech will make Fokker aircraft
K Raghu
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 22:23 IST
BANGALORE: Aerospace engineering firm Cades Digitech Pvt Ltd is in talks with The Netherlands-based Rekkof Aircraft, to manufacture under licence the family of Fokker aircraft in India for the airline market in the country.
Cades is planning to invest close to $300 million in an assembly plant for producing the family of 75-, 90- and 100-seater aircraft in India, industry sources said told DNA Money
“We are in talks to produce the Fokker aircraft in India. But we have not had any commitments,” Cades Digitech managing director and CEO Dataram Mishra said.
NHIC has invested $6.5 million in the 350-member Cades, which focuses on R&D and engineering services to aerospace and auto firms globally.
Aviation industry sources estimate a requirement of around 350 aircraft in the regional jet category in India over the next two decades.
A small group of private investors own Rekkof, which produces the work in a limited scale. The Fokker aircraft, whose initial designs go back to the early 1980s, has to be upgraded with new avionics and family of engines to meet the current requirements.
“The assembly line for the Fokker aircraft is likely to be located in Bangalore,” industry sources said, but Mishra declined to comment.
😮 Well this is brilliant news hope it does happen love the new winglet Fokker 70/100 NG 😀
James
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