The PM was felicitated by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Tata Sons chairperson N Chandrasekaran at the site of the C-295 transport aircraft manufacturing facility.
The facility will be utilised for the manufacturing of 40 C295 aircraft for the Indian Air Force, through collaboration between Tata Advanced Systems Limited and Air.
In a major boost to Make in India and domestic aviation manufacturing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of a transport aircraft manufacturing project for the Indian Air Force (IAF) at Vadodara, Gujarat today
Airbus and Tata will set up a plant in Gujarat to build the C295 transport plane in a project worth Rs 22,000 crore. This is for the first time that private firms are making military aircraft in India. The C295 has civilian and military applications.
European aviation major Airbus on Thursday said it received the regulatory approval from the Indian regulator for its C295 aircraft programme, becoming the first foreign original equipment maker to get such a nod.