Telangana - Hyderabad preferred destination for US Aerospace
According to the statement, ktr, as the minister is called, highlighted the phenomenal expansion of the aerospace industry and private sector defence investments in telangana during the previous nine years. He said that Telangana's focus industry is aerospace and defence and claimed that by taking home the top state honours for aerospace for three consecutive years in 2018, 2020, and 2022, telangana has accomplished a great accomplishment. In addition, hyderabad was named the No. 1 Aerospace City of the Future in the Financial Times FDI rankings for 2020–21. According to him, these awards demonstrate the State's forward-thinking attitude towards the aerospace industry.
Numerous industrial facilities for US corporations are located in telangana, including a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Tata Group that produces and distributes Sikorsky helicopter cabins, C130 J empennages, and F 16 wings. Similar to this, the complete Apache fuselage, Chinook aerostructures including the tail and nose cones, and vertical stabilisers for the 737 series of aircraft are produced by a joint venture between Boeing and TATA.
Engine components are produced in hyderabad by GE. hyderabad serves as the sole engine training facility for Pratt & Whitney in India. In addition to announcing the first Engine MRO by an OEM in india in hyderabad, Safran recently opened a facility for the production of aviation engine parts. According to the minister, the aerospace and military manufacturing industry is backed by more than 1000 MSMEs, many of whom are already part of the OEMs' worldwide supply chains.
Telangana has built a number of specialised clusters for aerospace and precision engineering with top-notch infrastructure. The majority of the large projects of the Tata Group and its US JV partners are housed at Adibatla Aerospace SEZ, one of the earliest aerospace SEZs in the nation.
KTR discussed existing manufacturing initiatives in hyderabad and upcoming new programmes with Ray Piselli, VP international business and Global business Development, and Dave Sutton, director for international Government Affairs, of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Glad to see Lockheed arranging their next supply chain meeting in hyderabad and aggressively pursuing productive partnerships with various Telangana-based MSMEs and start-ups, added KTR.