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{|{{Infobox aircraft begin
| name=Swati
| image=BHEL_Swati.jpg
| caption=
}}{{Infobox aircraft type
| type=Two-seat training monoplane
| national origin=India
| manufacturer=[[Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited]]
| designer = [[Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India)|Directorate General of Civil Aviation]]
| first flight=17 November 1990
| introduced=
| retired=
| status=
| primary user=
| number built=~20
|unit cost = {{Indian Rupee}}3.8 million (1998)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aero.pub.ro/wp-content/themes/aero.pub.ro/uploads/JANE_S_ALL_THE_WORLD_S_AIRCRAF/JANE_S_ALL_THE_WORLD_S_AIRCRAF/jawa0378.htm#IMG |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-06-02 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903093538/http://www.aero.pub.ro/wp-content/themes/aero.pub.ro/uploads/JANE_S_ALL_THE_WORLD_S_AIRCRAF/JANE_S_ALL_THE_WORLD_S_AIRCRAF/jawa0378.htm |archive-date=2011-09-03 }}</ref>
| developed from=
| variants with their own articles=
}}
|}
The '''Bharat Swati''' (or sometimes '''BHEL Swati''') is an [[India]]n two-seat training monoplane designed by the Technical Centre of Directorate General of Civil Aviation and built by [[Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited]].<ref name="Taylor1996" />

==Design and development==
The Swati is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a steel tube fuselage covered in fabric at the rear and composite material at the front.<ref name="Taylor1996" /> It has metal tail surfaces and wooden wings and a fixed landing gear with a steerable nosewheel.<ref name="Taylor1996" /> The Swati has a {{convert|116|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} [[Lycoming O-235]] piston engine at the front driving a two-bladed propeller.<ref name="Taylor1996" /> Directorate General of Civil Aviation ordered 40 to be distributed to civil flying clubs in India.

==Variants==
;LT-1M Swati
;LT-2M Swati

==Specifications==
{{Aircraft specs
|ref=<small>Brassey's World Aircraft & Systems Directory 1996</small><ref name="Taylor1996" />
|prime units? = met
|crew=2
|length m=7.21
|length ft=23
|length in=8
|span m=9.2
|span ft=30
|span in=3
|height m=2.78
|height ft=9
|height in=1.5
|wing area sqm=11.96
|wing area sqft=128.74
|empty weight kg=530
|empty weight lb=1168
|gross weight kg=770

|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=[[Lycoming O-235|Lycoming O-235-N2C]] piston engine
|eng1 kw=87
|eng1 hp=116
|max speed kmh=268
|max speed mph=167
|cruise speed kmh=195
|cruise speed mph=121
|range km=453
|range miles=282
|endurance=2 hours 45 minutes
|ceiling m=3050
|ceiling ft=10000
}}

==Incidents and Accidents==
On 3 June 1993 a Swati aircraft registration number VT-STC being test flown at [[Haridwar]] crashed when its starboard wing broke off after coming out of a loop killing the test pilot.<ref name="DGCA">[http://dgca.nic.in/accident/acc93.pdf CIVIL AVIATION AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR 1993] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711170908/http://dgca.nic.in/accident/acc93.pdf |date=2019-07-11 }} DGCA 2 February 2016</ref>

On 29 November 2001 a Swati LT II aircraft registration number VT-STO of the Kerala Aviation Training Centre on a training flight at [[Thiruvananthapuram]] crashed due to pilot error destroying the aircraft.<ref name="DGCA1">[http://dgca.nic.in/accident/acc01.pdf CIVIL AVIATION AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR 2001] DGCA 3 February 2016</ref>

==References==

===Notes===
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="Taylor1996">Taylor 1996, p. 401</ref>
}}

===Bibliography===
{{Commons category|Bharat Swati}}
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite book|last= Taylor|first= Michael J. H.|title= Brassey's World Aircraft & Systems Directory|year= 1996|publisher= Brassey's|location= London, England|isbn= 1-85753-198-1|url-access= registration|url= https://archive.org/details/brasseysworldair0000unse}}

[[Category:1990s Indian civil trainer aircraft]]
[[Category:Low-wing aircraft]]
[[Category:Single-engined tractor aircraft]]
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