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“Moreover, additional orders worth Rs 73,000 crore are in the pipeline. “That the PSU will not have any work orders after 2019 are baseless,” he claimed.To buttress his claims, the Union minister said that at present, HAL has work orders worth Rs 28,000 crore. Currently, HAL has been overhauling 12 Su-30 aircraft a year at its Ozar division,” the sources added. The overhauling of such aircraft increases their life span by another 10 years.“The first batch of aircraft manufactured in 2004 completed 10 years in 2014. Two more such aircraft are expected to be manufactured by December-end this year.Sources at HAL said that the life cycle of Sukhoi-30 aircraft is around 10 years or 1,000 flying hours..