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{{Short description|Pilot Training Sailplane}}
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{{Infobox aircraft
| name = ATS-1 Ardhra
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| type = Training [[sailplane]]
| manufacturer = [[Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)|Civil Aviation Department of India]], [[Hindustan Aeronautics]]
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| first_flight = 5 March [[1983 in aviation|1979]]
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The '''Hindustan Ardhra''' ({{Lit|The Moist One}})<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/ardra#:~:text=%C4%80rdr%C4%81%20means%20%E2%80%9Cgreen%E2%80%9D%20or%20%E2%80%9C,Rudra%20(God%20of%20destruction). | title=Ardra, Ārdrā, Ārdra: 32 definitions | date=27 August 2016 }}</ref> was a sailplane designed in India for pilot training by the government's Civil Aviation Department in the late 1970s as the '''ATS-1 Ardhra'''. It was a two-seat aircraft of conventional configuration and wooden construction. The Indian Air Force ordered fifty examples in the early 1980s to be produced by [[Hindustan Aeronautics]] and the type was approved for use for flying by cadets.




==Operators==
{{IND}}
* [[Indian Air Force]]

==Specifications==
{{Aircraft specs
|ref=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1988-89<ref name=JAWA88-89>{{cite book |title=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1988-89 |year=1988 |publisher=Jane's Information Group |location=London |isbn=0-7106-0867-5 |editor=John W.R. Taylor|pages=628}}</ref>
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|crew=2
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|length m=8.61
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|height m=2.464
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|wing area sqm=21.83
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|aspect ratio=12.5
|airfoil=Wortmann FX-61-184
|empty weight kg=328
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|max takeoff weight kg=508
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|stall speed kmh=61
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|never exceed speed kmh=210
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|g limits=+5.3 -2.65
|glide ratio=26
|sink rate ms=0.78
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|wing loading kg/m2=17.32
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==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |title=Jane's Encyclopaedia of Aviation |last=Taylor |first=Michael J.H. |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |isbn=978-0-517-69186-1|page=255 }}
* {{cite book|title=Jane's all the world's aircraft, 1985-86|url=https://archive.org/details/janesfightingshi8586shar|url-access=registration|editor1-last=Taylor|editor1-first=John W.R.|editor2-last=Munson|editor2-first=Kenneth|date=1985|publisher=Jane's Pub.|location=London|isbn=9780710608215|edition=76|page=[https://archive.org/details/janesfightingshi8586shar/page/746 746] }}



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{{Civil Aviation Department aircraft}}
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[[Category:1970s Indian sailplanes]]
[[Category:Glider aircraft]]
[[Category:HAL aircraft|Ardrha]]
[[Category:Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)]]
[[Category:Aircraft first flown in 1979]]

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DesireeTietjen at 23:56, 31 May 2025