Airbus C295 for Indian Air Force to be manufactured in Vadodara
India is set to have its first aircraft manufacturing unit in the private sector with Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to lay the foundation stone of Tata’s military transport aircraft production plant at Vadodara on Sunday.
The manufacturing unit that disrupts the eight-decade-long monopoly of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited would initially roll out Airbus’s C295 transport planes for the IAF as a replacement of the ageing Avro fleet. But the same unit, defence secretary Ajay Kumar said, could later be used to produce other transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force.
