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Privately owned domestic aircraft-maker PT Regio Aviasi Industri (RAI) will team up with state-run aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) and the West Java provincial government to develop a commercial regional jet, the R80
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rivately owned domestic aircraft-maker PT Regio Aviasi Industri (RAI) will team up with state-run aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) and the West Java provincial government to develop a commercial regional jet, the R80.
PT RAI commissioner Ilham Habibie, who is the son of former president BJ Habibie, said the plane would be manufactured in West Java.
'The R80 will be able to fly 20,000 feet above sea level. The cost to build one R80 is estimated at US$500,000 to $700,000,' Ilham said in Bandung, West Java, as quoted by kompas.com on Thursday.
If all goes according to plan, the R80 will make its maiden flight in 2018 from the planned Kertajati International Airport in Majalengka regency, West Java.
BJ Habibie, a Germany-educated engineer, said that Indonesia had the capacity to develop its own aircraft.
The N250 turboprop plane, or Nusantara 250, which was manufactured by state-owned aircraft company PT IPTN before it was renamed PT DI, is a concrete example of how Indonesians can build aircraft, he said. The plane conducted its maiden flight on Aug. 10, 1995, and its test flights were successful, he added.
