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.