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Aircraft Division was
established in the year 1940. Since inception, the Division
has manufactured a variety of Aircraft both under licence as
well as indigenously designed and developed.
Apart from 1st order
of Hawk Mk132 Aircraft (66 Nos.), the division has signed
contract with Indian Air Force and Indian Navy to supply
additional 57 Hawk Aircrafts (40 Nos. Hawk for Indian Airforce
and 17 Nos. Hawk for Indian Navy).
Currently, the
Division is manufacturing The Hawk Mk.132, a transonic
tandem-seat ground attack / trainer, powered by a single Rolls
Royce Adour Mk.871 turbo fan under licence from BAE SYSTEMS,
UK.
The Division has received the approval of CAR-21 from DGCA for
manufacture of CIVIL Aircraft components.
The Pilot Project for the implementation of Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) was launched in the Division in July
2004. The ERP system was made operational from Nov-2006. Apart
from the existing system, many additional ERP facilities being
integrated.
The Division is
equipped with modern infrastructure in Plant and Equipment
like CAD - CAM Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance
and Customer support System with 2179 highly skilled personnel
including more than 511officers working in a covered area of
2,25,000 sq.m.
The Division has so
far manufactured over 2010 aircrafts of various types. With
experience and capabilities built over the past seven decades,
the Aircraft Division is bidding for substantial share in the
International Aeronautical market.
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