What It Does: The firm closely operates with HAL, DRDO and ISRO and has the prime responsibility of developing civilian aircraft in India.
Mission: To develop aerospace technologies with strong science content, design and build small and medium-sized civil aircraft, and support all national aerospace programmes.
Size & Presence: Based in Bengaluru, India, NAL employs a staff of about 2,500 with about 350 full-fledged R&D professionals.
National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), is India's first & largest aerospace research firm. It was established by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Delhi in 1959. The firm closely operates with HAL, DRDO and ISRO and has the prime responsibility of developing civilian aircraft in India. It concentrates on research in advanced topics in aerospace and related disciplines.
Based in Bengaluru, India, NAL employs a staff of about 2,500 with about 350 full-fledged R&D professionals.[citation needed] NAL is equipped with facilities such as the Nilakantan Wind tunnel Centre and a computerized fatigue test facility. NAL also has facilities for the investigation of failures and accidents in the domain of aerospace engineering.
On 1 June 1959, the National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) was set up in Delhi, with Dr P Nilakantan as its first Director. In March 1960, it set up its office in the stables of the Palace of Maharaja of Mysore on Jayamahal Road, Bangalore as the National Aeronautical Laboratory(NAL). The first Executive Council was chaired by JRD Tata and included Prof Satish Dhawan and the designer Dr V M Ghatage among its members. Originally started as National Aeronautical Laboratory, it was renamed National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) in April 1993 to reflect its growing involvement in the Indian space programme, its multidisciplinary activities and its global position.
CSIR has approved ₹300 crores ($75 million) to design an aeroplane that can carry 70 passengers on short flights. The project will be called RTA-70. NAL would use the money to design a digital concept plane in around two years. Once additional funding for the ₹2,000 crore project and its partners are firmed up, a prototype would be built and flown in four years. The first prototype would be a 70-seat plane. It is a family of aircraft that NAL is designing and will have three variants, a 70-seater, a 50-seater and an extended 90-seater version to be called RTA-90 with the option of both Turboprop and Turbofan as a power source.
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