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Amongst the principal changes is the adoption of Universal's UNS-1 glass cockpit, which means that standard aircraft are equipped to be flown under single-pilot instrument flight rules (IFR) in addition to visual flight rules (VFR); according to RUAG Aviation, the Dornier 228 NG is the first aircraft in its class to be certified with equivalent ...
Indian Air Force – operates 53 Dornier 228-201. [4] Indian Navy – operates 26 Dornier 228-201 and have 12 on order. [4] [9] Indian Coast Guard - operates 36 Dornier 228-201. DRDO – 1 Dornier 228 “Nabhratna” used as a flying test bed by LRDE [10] Italy. Italian Army Aviation - 3 [11] [12] Malawi. Military of Malawi – 3 [4] Maldives
Three Dornier 228 of Aerocardal at the airline's Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport base. A fixed-base operator (FBO) is an organization granted the right by an airport to operate at the airport and provide aeronautical services such as fueling, hangaring, tie-down, and parking, aircraft rental, aircraft maintenance, flight instruction, and similar services. [1]
The pilot-in-command was 40-year-old Captain Mohammad Tarmizi Muda, [3] he was a former military pilot, and had a total of 3,947 flight hours, 783 were on the Dornier 228; [1]: 7 The pilot-monitoring was 29-year-old First Officer Wong Lein Yee, [3] with 1,120 total flight hours, he had 22 hours of experience on the Dornier 228.
TACV Flight 5002 was a flight operated by TACV that crashed on 7 August 1999. Due to technical difficulties, the aircraft normally serving the route from São Pedro Airport on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde to Agostinho Neto Airport on the island of Santo Antão, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, was replaced with a Cape Verde Coast Guard Dornier 228 (registration D4-CBC).
On 24 November 2019, a Dornier 228-201 twin turboprop aircraft, operated by local carrier Busy Bee Congo, crashed shortly after takeoff from Goma International Airport in a densely populated section of the city, killing 21 of the 22 on board and 6 on the ground. It is the deadliest accident involving the Dornier 228. [1] [2] [3] [4]
In 1983, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) acquired a production licence for the Dornier 228 and manufactured the aircraft for the Asian market. By 2013 a total of 117 Dornier 228 aircraft had been produced by HAL with plans to build 20 more during 2013-14. [1] Pushpindar Singh Chopra was the agent of Dornier to India during this contract.
The aircraft involved in the accident was a twin turboprop Dornier 228-202, registration 9N-AHA, serial number 8123. Before it was sold to Sita Air, [5] it was acquired by Holiday Express in 1987. It later entered the Australian registration of VH-NSH and then the American registration of N2255E for G M Hock Construction.