Airbus-TASL venture to give boost to aviation ecosystem
Airbus-TASL is the first private military aircraft manufacturing facility in India. Of the nearly 14,000 detailed parts used to make one aircraft, 13,000 would be fully manufactured in India.
First published on The Tribune. 05:55 AM Oct 29, 2024 IST
THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) signed a Rs 21,935-crore contract with Airbus Defence and Space in September 2021 for the procurement of 56 C-295 transport aircraft as a replacement for the IAF’s ageing Avro fleet. The deal entailed the delivery of the first batch of 16 aircraft to be manufactured and delivered from its final assembly line in Seville, Spain. The subsequent 40 will be manufactured and assembled by Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) in India under an industrial partnership between India and Spain.
It is the first-ever collaboration of this kind to manufacture transport aircraft in India. The foundation stone for the TASL final assembly line facility in Vadodara, Gujarat, was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 30, 2022. The first aircraft in flyaway condition was delivered to the then IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, at Seville on September 13 last year. The C-295 aircraft was formally inducted into the IAF on September 25, 2023, by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at Air Force Station, Hindon, Ghaziabad. The first IAF squadron to be equipped with six of these aircraft was Vadodara-based 11 Squadron, also known as ‘the Rhinos’.
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