Mumbai pilot helped NAL roll out trainer aircraft Mumbai pilot helped NAL roll out trainer aircraft ByYogesh NaikYogesh Naik / Updated: Apr 4, 2021, 06:00 IST Mihir Bhagvati, test pilot, made several suggestions to improve the indigenously manufactured new generation two-seater trainer aircraft The new generation Hansa aircraft – the indigenously manufactured trainer aircraft of National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) launched on March 31 – was developed with a lot of inputs from a Mumbai-based pilot, Mihir Bhagvati (inset), who heads the Bombay Flying Club. The aircraft, HANSA-NG, will take its first flight by April-end in Bengaluru. The NAL has received more than 30 letters of intent, and HANSA-NG is much cheaper than Cessna 172