The indigenous 14 seater SARAS prototype 1N aircraft was successfully flight tested in Bengaluru today. The maiden flight took off from HAL airport and flew for about 40 minutes at the maximum height of 8500 feet clocking the speed of 145 knots. It was a textbook flight with all the system parameters found to be normal. <br/><br/>The prototype jointly designed and developed by CSIR, NAL and other public sector organisations will perform 20 flights for the evaluation of system performance. The data will be used to freeze the design of production version aircraft with 19 seats meant for civil and military certification.