The DHC-6 Twin Otter

Guardian 400

IKHANA has a unique focus on the development of special missions aircraft across a wide variety of platforms that include turboprops, business jet, and transport category aircraft, with a special focus in the DHC-6 Twin Otter series.  IKHANA’s catalogue of special modifications provides customers with unlimited opportunities to develop unique configurations for specific missions.  As a recent example, IKHANA was the Prime Contractor for the development and integration of a fleet of Viking DHC-6 Twin Otter Guardian 400 aircraft for the Vietnam Navy.  The Guardian 400 provides configuration flexibility for a variety of applications including:

IKHANA’s Guardian 400 configuration provides a robust and flexible design suited to accommodate a variety of currently available radar systems that includes, but is not limited to, the ELTA EL/M-2022A(V)3, Leonardo (Selex) Seaspray 5000E, Telephonics RDR-1700A/B or RDR-1500B, Selex Seaspray 5000E, General Atomics Lynx, the Thales’ Imaster and other off-the-shelf or specialty radar/sensor systems.  The nose mounted radome configuration can be designed to meet unique customer specifications and provides flexibility for a variety of sensors. It has no effect on aircraft flight performance.

Various EO-IR systems from smaller eight inch (8”) turrets up to twenty-five inch (25”) (L-3 Wescam MX-25)  are available that can be nose mounted, co-located with the radar, or mounted within IKHANA’s proprietary enlarged camera portal located in the belly of the aft fuselage.  Systems can be fixed or used with a retract mechanism as appropriate for the customer’s specific configuration.  When not required the systems can be removed, and the aircraft can be easily returned to a standard de-missionized configuration.