First flying in 1995, the N250 was Indonesia's first indigenous effort to gain a foothold in the market for regional turboprops, but the project fell victim to the financial crisis affecting Asia in the late 1990s and only two were built. There had even been talk about production lines being established in the UK and USA. In the 2010s a cheaper and simplified development to be known as the R-80 was mooted, an MoU being signed with Leonardo, but it remains to be seen whether this proceeds. PK-XNG is the N250 prototype, placed on display here in 2020

In the mid 1990's, the N250 was an ambitious commuter aircraft project of IPTN (Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara, now Indonesian Aerospace). The 50-seat prototype N250-50 c/n PA-1 registered PK-XNG first flew on August 10, 1995, followed by the longer 2nd prototype on December 19, 1996. The project was to counter the sucessful ATR-42/72 series aircraft but unfortunately, the asian financial crisis of 1997 killed the N250 project altogether. In this 2009 picture, the 2nd prototype (64-68 seats layout) can be seen sitting abandoned on IPTN's premisis in Bandung, Java.

first prototype - Preserved WAHH Indonesia