Dornier Do 228

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The Dornier 228 is a twin-turboprop STOL utility aircraft, manufactured by Dornier GmbH (later DASA Dornier, Fairchild-Dornier) from 1981 until 1998.

In 1983, Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) bought a production licence and manufactures the 228 for the Asian market sphere.

Approximately 270 Do 228 were built at Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and Kanpur, India.

In August 2006, 127 Dornier Do 228 aircraft (all variants) remain in airline service.


In 2009, RUAG started building a Dornier 228 New Generation in Germany with the fuselage, wings and tail unit manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Kanpur (India) and transported to Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, where RUAG Aviation carries out aircraft final assembly, customized equipment installation, product conformity inspection and aircraft delivery.

It is basically the same aircraft with improved technologies and performances, such as a new five blade propeller, glass cockpit and longer range.

The first delivery was in September 2010.

Design and development

In the late 1970s, Dornier GmbH developed a new kind of wing, the TNT (Tragflügel neuer Technologie), subsidized by the German Government.

Dornier tested it on a modified Do 28D-2Skyservant and with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-110 turboprop engines.

Finally, Dornier changed the engine and tested the new aircraft, which was named Do 128 with two Garrett AiResearch TPE-331-5 engines.

The company developed a new fuselage for the TNT and TPE 331–5 in two variants (15- and 19-passenger) and named both project-aircraft E-1 (later Do 228-100) and E-2 (later Do 228-200).

At ILA '80, Dornier presented the new aircraft in public. Both the prototypes were flown on 28 March 1981 and 9 May 1981 for the first time.


After German certification was granted on 18 December 1981, the first Do 228 entered service in the fleet of Norving in July 1982.

British and United States certification followed on 17 April and 11 May 1984 respectively.

Over the years Dornier offered the 228 in upgraded variants and with special equipment for special missions. In 1998 the production line was stopped for better development of the successor Fairchild-Dornier 328.

Do 228NG

The Dornier 228NG was produced by RUAG Aviation and certified by EASA on 18 August 2010.

First delivery, to a Japanese customer, took place in September 2010.

The main changes from the previous Dornier 228-212 model are a new 5-blade propeller made of composite material, more powerful engines and an advanced glass cockpit featuring electronic instrument displays.

In 2011, the Bangladesh Navy ordered 2 Do 228NG for the surveillance and search and rescue (SAR) mission.

The aircraft are expected to be delivered in early 2013.

Civilian operators

The major operators of the 127 Do 228 aircraft remaining in service in August 2006 include:

A Soriano Aviation (3)

Olympic Airlines (9)

Aerocardal (3)

Aero Vip (Portugal) (2)

Agni Air (3)

African Air Services Leasing (2)

Air Caraïbes (2)

Airlines of Tasmania (1)

Air Marshall Islands (1)

CorpFlite (2)

Bighorn Airways (4)

Daily Air (4)

Soriano Aviation

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Olympic

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Aerocardal

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Agni Air

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Air Caraïbes

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Divi Divi Air (1)

Dolphin Air (6)

Dornier Aviation Nigeria (15)

Gorkha Airlines ()

Jagson Airlines (2)

Indian Airlines (2)

Inter Island Airways (2)

Iran Aseman Airlines (5)

KaSas Limited (Kenya) (4)

LASSA (Chile)(1)

Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (6)

Lufttransport (2)

Mandarin Airlines (5)

Maldivian (1)

Manx2 (2)

New Central Airlines (3)

Sita Air (2)

Solar Air (2)

Summit Air (7)

Vision Airlines (8)

Yeti Airlines (2)

Flight Link Tanzania (2)