Hindustan Aeronautics hands over ALHs to the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard

HAL on Februar y 5, handed over three Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH Mk III) to Indian Navy and two ALHs to Indian Coast Guard as part of its 16 ALHs contract at the ongoing Aero India 2021. The helicopters were handed over by R. Madhavan, CMD, HAL to Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of Naval Staff and K. Natarajan, DG, Coast Guard in the presence of Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh. “The remaining helicopters from the contract are under various stages of production, flight tests and we plan to deliver all the helicopters within the contract deliver y schedules despite production slowdown due to COVID restrictions” said, Madhavan. ALH has clogged close to 3,00,000 cumulative flight hours and has proven its mettle in versatile operations.