N 250

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N250 is a code plane of the Indonesian IPTN aerospace industry's most ambitious project yet but in late 1998 looked in danger of stalling due to the Asian financial crisis.

IPTN announced development of the N250 at the 1989 Paris Airshow. Prototype construction began in 1992 but by this stage calculations showed that the 50 seater would be overweight, and so IPTN decided to stretch the basic aircraft to seat 64 to 68 passengers.

At the time only the first prototype was to be built to the 50 seat N250 standard, subsequent aircraft would have been to the larger N250100 specification. However in late 1995 this plan was amended and the 50 seat N25050 was again added to the model line-up alongside the larger N250100.