It's configuration is low-wing, monoplane, single-engine aircraft designed primarily for the training of pilots in basic aerobatics, navigation, and other flying skills.

The HPT-32 is equipped with a turboprop engine, offering good fuel efficiency and handling characteristics for new pilots.

As a result, the aircraft's service life was cut short, and it was gradually phased out in favor of more modern trainers, such as the HAL HTT-40.

When it flies upside-down fuel flows from a collector tank in the fuselage and the inverted flight is limited to 1 min.

[4] The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has been reported as saying the aircraft is "technologically outdated and beset by flight safety hazards" when discussing the grounding of the fleet in 2009.