
Representational Photo of SP-1 from the 84th Air Force day
LCA Tejas SP-8 (LA-5008) successfully flew for the first time today taking off at 15:42 hrs from HAL Airport in Bengaluru and landing back at 1615 hrs. SP-8 flew for 33 mins with the experienced Gp. Capt. KK Venugopal (Retd) on the controls.
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This is the eight serial production aircraft and will be handed over to the Indian Air Force after a few production sorties.