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Aircraft maker RAI teams up with Dassault Systemes for R80 project
Local aircraft maker PT Regio Aviasi Industri (RAI) has teamed up with France-based software producer Dassault Systemes to design and manufacture the firmâs regional turboprop R80 aircraft
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ocal aircraft maker PT Regio Aviasi Industri (RAI) has teamed up with France-based software producer Dassault Systemes to design and manufacture the firm's regional turboprop R80 aircraft.
"PT RAI will install platform designed by Dassault Systemes, 3DEXPERIENCE, to support the collaborative engineering and manufacturing works," RAI president director Agung Nugroho said in Jakarta on Tuesday on the sidelines of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing ceremony as quoted by kontan.co.id.
RAI, established by PT Ilthabi Rekatama and PT Eagle Capital, belongs to Indonesia's former president cum aerospace veteran BJ Habibie. It is expected that the R80, designed with 80 seats, will take its maiden flight in 2017.
Agung was optimistic that the software designs for the new plane would be finished on time.
He refused to comment on the deal both companies sealed during the signing ceremony, but he said that RAI had allocated US$1 billion for the R80 project. (nfo/nvn)
