Tata-Airbus project: PM lays foundation stone of Vadodara factory ahead of Gujarat polls
India would become a major producer of transport aircraft including large passenger planes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Sunday, claiming a rapid expansion of the aerospace sector in the next decade.
“The Make in India will become Make for the Globe. In the future large passenger planes will be manufactured in India,” Modi said after laying the foundation stone of the Tata Group’s military transport facility where a Tata-Airbus consortium would produce C295 aircraft for the IAF to replace its ageing Avro fleet.
The defence ministry in September 2021 signed a contract with Airbus under which the European aviation major will supply 16 aircraft in fly-away condition between September 2023 and August 2025.
