GippsAero GA18 Nomad

The GippsAero GA18 Nomad was a proposed revival of the Australian Nomad commercial transport, planned as a twin-engine, 18-seat turboprop utility aircraft. Gippsland Aeronautics won the bidding to take over the type certificate of the Government Aircraft Factories Nomad in June 2008 and said it would probably restart production. The new aircraft was to be re-engineered with new engines, propellers, a glass cockpit and weight-saving measures. Under Mahindra ownership the company obtained a former New Zealand N24 Nomad as a development aircraft and began a hangar at Morwell for the work, with first flight and certification hoped for in 2012 to 2014. Work stayed slow while the GA10 and other Airvan projects took priority, the prototype was not completed by early 2020, and development of the GA18 had ceased by August 2020, so no production aircraft were ever built.