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SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION News Flies. We Gather Intelligence. Every Month. From India. RS. 75.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) BUYER (INDIA-BASED 75.00 RS. Aviationwww.spsaviation.net JULY • 2010 Alternate Engine Programme for JSF US Aerospace Majors II C-27J Spartan MMRCA Update Special Mission Aircraft Regional Aviation Infrastructure Industry: AESA AN/APG-80 Business Aircraft DELENG/2008/24199 RNI NUMBER: Financing PAGE 20 A powerful partnership. www.northropgrumman.com/mmrca MMRCA The elephant is revered as a remover of obstacles and a harbinger of success. An F-16 with Northrop Grumman’s operationally proven APG-80 AESA fire control radar system could orporation C become the modern day symbol of protection for one of the world’s largest air forces. orthrop Grumman N The team of the Indian Air Force, © 2010 Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman have the unmatched capabilities and cohesive partnership to accomplish any Air Force mission. 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AviationISSUE 7 • 2010 36 Regional Aviation Make it Viable and Profitable INDUSTRY 38 Homeland Security ‘It is Portable and Back Packable’ 40 OEM The Proven Best SHOW REPORT 42 Snapshots A Glimpse of ILA Berlin Cessna Finance Corporation (CFC) claims that it provides a turnkey, one-stop approach to potential aircraft owners 20 (seen here is Citation CJ 2) HALL OF FAME 43 James H. Doolittle FIRST 8 Unmanned Refuel Cover Story REGULAR DEPARTMENTS TECH WATCH OWN YOUR WINGS The number of top-of-the-rich. 6 A Word from Editor 9 – Another Feather on the Cap Indians who can acquire a – Unblinking Eye private plane is skyrocketing. 7 NewsWithViews Financing by companies like Cessna, Embraer, etc has become - Mars Space Odyssey MILITARY a key enabler in buying or 10 InFocus 14 Industry leasing an aircraft Scuffle over Second Engine US Aerospace Majors • 17 MMRCA ���� ������������������������ 11 Forum In Progress ������������������������������������������������������������������ ���������������������������������� ���������������������������������� ��������www.spsaviation.net ����������� What’s the Alternative? ������������������ Industry ����������� 25 ������� �������������������� ���������� �������������� India may Need 50-100 ������������� 44 NewsDigest ����������������� �������� �������������������� Airlifters: Alenia �������������� ���������� �������������� 32 Special Mission Aircraft ������������������ 48 LastWord ������������������ ����������� ��������� ������� VIP Syndrome On Unusual Missions SP's Aviation 07 of 10 final.indd 1 7/16/10 12:58:42 PM Cover Image: CIVIL The Indian economy is growing and so is the number NEXT ISSUE: of high net worth individuals. The slashed price tags of Current and Future - 28 Infrastructure the business jets is tickling their urge to buy. T3 The New Terminology Military Aero Engines Cover image: Anoop Kamath Issue 7 • 2010 SP’S AVIATION 1 TABLE of CONTENTS PLUS... PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DESIGN & LAYOUT Jayant Baranwal Senior Art Director: Anoop Kamath Designers: Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, EXECUTIVE EDITOR Sonu Singh Bisht Subir Ghosh DIRECTOR SALES & MARKETING Neetu Dhulia ASSISTANT GROUP EDITOR SALES & MARKETING R. Chandrakanth Head Vertical Sales: Rajeev Chugh Sales Manager: Rajiv Ranjan SENIOR VISITING EDITOR SP’S WEBSITES Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. Bhatia Sr Web Developer: Shailendra Prakash Ashish Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma SENIOR TECHNICAL GROUP EDITORS 25 C-27J Spartan Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. 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PHOTOGRAPHS Join us on Facebook Join us on Linkedin WILL PRIVATISATION OF AIRPORTS LEAD TO QUALITATIVE CHANGES AND INCREASED EFFICIENCY? Follow us on Twitter Yes No Don’t Know Join the poll and comment Winner of the last month’s poll: Balvinder Singh Winners get one year subscription of SP’s Aviation magazine A Word from Editor With the price tags for some private jets taking a dip by as much as 35-40 per cent from what they were in 2008, buyers are beginning to scout around for purchases. A rupee that is also stronger against the US dollar now, is making things easier. n the last issue we had just glided over the news rate of growth of airlines and the tardy pace of development of the T3 launch. But the sheer magnitude of the of aviation infrastructure continued to widen impinging on the terminal is such that it takes time for even the boom in the airline industry. There is an imperative need to awe to sink in. This time out the need is to be accelerate the pace of development of aviation infrastructure elaborate, for what you might have been reading in order that the full capacity of aviation industry is exploited.” in the general news media would have been cur- We have our T3, but a lot more is needed too. sory and meant for, needless to say, for people who don’t Three days after the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Ibelong to the industry. SP’s Aviation always tries to fill up inaugurated T3 (on July 3), the first two-seat, fly-by-wire, these information gaps, and so we have for you an elabo- trainer version of the naval light combat aircraft (LCA) Te- rate article on the latest pride of India. Terminal 3 of the jas rolled-out marking a milestone achievement in the de- Indira Gandhi International Airport has not only signalled velopment programme undertaken by HAL and