NEW DELHI: The Tata-Airbus facility to fabricate C-295 tactical army airlift plane at Vadodara in Gujarat can be inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez on Monday. Beneath the Rs 21,935 crore contract inked for 56 C-295 plane in 2021, 16 of the twin-turboprop planes are being delivered straight by Airbus from Spain and 40 are to be made in India.
“The Indian and Spanish PMs will collectively inaugurate the TATA Plane Complicated for manufacturing C-295 plane on the TATA Superior Techniques Ltd campus,” an official mentioned.
The primary of the 40 planes to be produced on the new facility is slated to roll out in Sept 2026 and the final in Aug 2031. Able to carrying as much as nine-tonne of payload or 71 troopers with a “quick take-off and land” functionality from semi-prepared surfaces in hilly terrain, the C-295 plane will enhance IAF’s tactical airlift functionality alongside the China border, as additionally different locations just like the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, as reported earlier by TOI.
The C-295 plane will change IAF’s HS-748 Avro fleet. That is the primary occasion of the non-public sector manufacturing a army plane, breaking the digital monopoly of defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics.
The Rajnath Singh-led defence acquisitions council in Feb had authorized the preliminary case for 15 extra C-295 plane, with 9 being earmarked for Navy and 6 for Coast Guard.
