Bharat Swati

The Bharat Swati is an Indian two-seat training monoplane designed by the Technical Centre of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and built by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.

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. It has metal tail surfaces and wooden wings and a fixed landing gear with a steerable nosewheel. The Swati has a Lycoming O-235 piston engine at the front driving a two-bladed propeller. Directorate General of Civil Aviation ordered 40 to be distributed to civil flying clubs in India.

Variants

LT-1M Swati
LT-2M Swati

Incidents and Accidents

On 3 June 1993, a Swati being test flown at Haridwar crashed when its starboard wing broke off after coming out of a loop, killing the test pilot.
On 29 November 2001, a Swati LT II of the Kerala Aviation Training Centre on a training flight at Thiruvananthapuram crashed due to pilot error, destroying the aircraft.