 It was announced in November 2008 that the Kaveri engine will be installed on LCA by December 2009, apparently for tests only.In February 2009, it was published in Flightglobal that the GTRE had spent in developing the Kaveri engine since 1989, but the power-plant is still overweight and does not have the of thrust that its customer requires.Natarajan told Flightglobal that the programme will not be scrapped.