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 Tata's first copter cabin to be launched today on the outskirts of Hyderabad(City of Biryani)

The TASL, as anchor industry, sighed MoU with USA-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. to manufacture S-92 helicopter cabins in India. Tata company had announced that the first phase of the facility would be completed within a period of eight to 10 months. True to its word, the first Sikorsy S-92 helicopter cabin made in India would be delivered on November 7, 15 days ahead of the schedule, for shipment to Sikrosky. Mr. Ratan N. Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons and Mr. Louis Chenevert, Chairman United Technologies Corporation would attend the event to be presided over by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah.

The first notified Aerospace SEZ in the country would ultimately be transformed into a major hub for high-end manufacturing related to whole gamut of aerospace in India and would help in attracting investments in aerospace industry to Hyderabad and elsewhere in the country, said B.P.Acharya, Principal Secretary, Industries. Mr. Acharya, who was heading the APIIC, said Sikorsky which has a comprehensive manufacturing unit in Japan, proposed to shift the entire unit to Aerospace SEZ in a phased manner.

SEZ also attracted Israel-based Nova integrated systems for manufacture of unmanned aircraft, apart from the indigenous Samuha Engineering Industries.

Aerospace SEZ to become global hub for high-end manufacturing