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Helicopter Division has produced the first Cheetal helicopter against an order of three Cheetals for Afghanistan Government. This is the first export order for the Cheetal, which is the re-engined variant (developed as company funded programme) of the proven Cheetah helicopter being manufactured by HAL Helicopter Division for over four decades.
The Cheetal helicopter is specially suited for high altitude flying and can operate upto 7 kms altitude and hasa range of 640 kms with an endurance of three and a half hour. It incorporates features of modern cockpit instruments like electrically driven artificial horizon, directional gyro, Flight monitoring system,Cockpit Voice Recorder and Master Flasher Warning System. The ground run of the helicopter was carried out on March 27,2013. Shri. M S Srinath, ED(HC),Shri V Sadagopan, GM, Helicopter Division, Shri S.K. Mukherjee, RD (DGQA), Helicopters, and others were present on the occasion.
http://www.hal-india.com/HAL-CONNECT/HAL-CONNECT-ISSUE-62.pdf
The Cheetal helicopter is specially suited for high altitude flying and can operate upto 7 kms altitude and hasa range of 640 kms with an endurance of three and a half hour. It incorporates features of modern cockpit instruments like electrically driven artificial horizon, directional gyro, Flight monitoring system,Cockpit Voice Recorder and Master Flasher Warning System. The ground run of the helicopter was carried out on March 27,2013. Shri. M S Srinath, ED(HC),Shri V Sadagopan, GM, Helicopter Division, Shri S.K. Mukherjee, RD (DGQA), Helicopters, and others were present on the occasion.
http://www.hal-india.com/HAL-CONNECT/HAL-CONNECT-ISSUE-62.pdf