According to Airbus, ‘The first 16 C295s of the 56 aircraft on order will be assembled at the San Pablo Sur site in Seville, Spain, with the second aircraft due to be delivered in May 2024 and the next 14 rolled out at a rate of one per month until August 2025.’
The wing is built at the Tata Lockheed Martin Aerostructures Limited (TLMAL) facility in Hyderabad, which is also the ‘single global source of C-130J empennage assemblies installed on all new Super Hercules aircraft’.
Kiran Dambala was until recently the program manager and the primary contact for all domestic and international F-35 customers for mods and upgrades in Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II program.
Dambala assumes this position from the outgoing Tata – Lockheed Martin Aerostructures Limited (TLMAL) COO Abhay Paranjape.
The proposed transfer of F-16 wing production from Israel to India is not contingent on an order from the Indian Air Force (IAF) according to Lockheed Martin.
Boeing is the third international manufacturer to have announced a partnership with Indian companies for the production of fighter aircraft in India.
The eventual order for six aircraft is expected to be worth USD 650 million and a follow-on exercise of an option on an earlier IAF order for 22 helicopters.
Tata and Boeing will start work on a manufacturing facility for the Apache AH-64E gunship fuselage of which 22 have been ordered by the Indian Air Force.
Tata Advanced Systems Limited is expected to deliver the first of eight airframes for the Dornier 228 NG to RUAG early next year from a facility in Hyderabad in a tie-up announced in June 2014.
Boeing and Tata plan for the joint venture to manufacture the fuselage of the Apache AH-64E attack helicopter for global customers at a new facility to be set up in Hyderabad.
