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Ruag’s new-generation Do 228 on track for 2010 deliveries
Ruag Aerospace, the Swiss company that now holds the type and production certificates for the Dornier 228 NG, recently held its third operators’ conference

Ruag Aerospace, the Swiss company that now holds the type and production certificates for the Dornier 228 NG, recently held its third operators’ conference for the regional and utility turboprop. In February India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) began delivering the first shipset of structural parts to Ruag Aerospace Services at the former Fairchild Dornier plant in Oberpfaffenhofen, less than a year after the companies signed a contract to collaborate on the project to re-launch Do 228 production.

The second shipset of parts–consisting of fuselage, wings and tail unit–is on its way to Ruag by sea from India on time, according to the Swiss company, which plans to deliver its first newly built Do 228 NG early next year.