A quest which started in 2001 is about to end: Tejas, India’s indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA), completed its final lap to transform into a full-fledged combat aircraft—in Bangalore on Wednesday.
After its first flight on January 4, 2001, Tejas had successfully completed 1,452 test flights, with the last one here, where it undertook air-to-ground weapon and drop tank jettison trials. Now, it is awaiting an Initial Operational Clearance (IOC)—which is likely to be given on December 27.
It all took just 20 minutes: A Tejas PV-2 aircraft took off from the Bangalore-based Aeronautical Development Agency and the National Flight Test Centre, where the LCA programme was born and brought up, hit the bulls-eye at the aeronautical test range facility in Kudapura Kaval near Chitradurga and returned to the Bangalore base.
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