• Aircraft:

  Hindustan Aeronautics HT-2L

• Reg: IX480 photos
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• Airline: India - Air Force
• Photo Date: Dec 05, 2015
• Uploaded: Jul 25, 2017
• Other Location - Bangalore, India

On display at the HAL Heritage Centre, Bangalore. The prototype first flew on 5 Aug 1951 in the hands of Capt Jimmy Munshi. It was the first Indian-built aircraft to achieve production status and first indigenous design to be accepted by the IAF in 1955 as an ab-initio trainer. This all-metal fixed undercarriage aircraft replaced the Tiger Moth and on it trained a number of IAF and IN pilots for Stage I at AFA, PTE and EFS till it retired from IAF service in 1989. Ghana received 12 HT-2s in 1958.

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Aircraft

Sean D Silva IX480

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