Mahindra Aerospace

Mahindra Aerospace
Private
Industry Aerospace
Founded 2003[1]
Founder Anand Mahindra
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India[2]
Key people
 Mr. Arvind Mehra, Executive Director & CEO,[3] Anand Mahindra (Vice-Chairman & MD), Hemant Luthra, President.[4]
Parent Mahindra Group
Subsidiaries Gippsland Aeronautics
Website www.mahindraaerospace.com

Mahindra Aerospace is aerospace division of the Indian multinational conglomerate company Mahindra Group.[5][6] It is the first Indian private firm to make smaller civil aircraft for the Indian general aviation market.[4] It is an AS9100 Rev.B certified design organization.[7]

Acquisitions

A Civil Air Patrol GA8 Airvan on takeoff from West Houston Airport during a mission following Hurricane Rita in 2005.

The parent Mahindra & Mahindra group acquired a 75.1% majority stake in December 2009 of Australian aircraft manufacturer Gippsland Aeronautics, builder of the Gippsland GA200, Gippsland GA8 Airvan and the Gippsland GA10 Airvan. The company was renamend GippsAero.[8]

Also in December 2009 the Mahindra & Mahindra group also acquired a 75.1% stake in Aerostaff Australia[9] , a component manufacturer of high-precision, close-tolerance, aircraft components and assemblies for large aerospace original equipment manufacturers.

In June 2010 the company acquired the Australian Boeing unit, an aerospace component manufacturer.

Products

National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and Mahindra Aerospace jointly developed the NAL NM5 light aircraft.

Manufacturing plant

The Mahindra Group had planned to construct a plant for aerospace component manufacturing at Malur in Karnataka with an investment of about Rs 40 crore. Mahindra Aerospace had acquired about five acres for this purpose.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mahindra offers to quit AI board over conflict of interest". Indianexpress.com. 2011-02-22. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
  2. ↑ CJ: puretechin. "Mahindra Engineering Services bags Process Innovation award at the NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2011". Merinews.com. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
  3. ↑ "Mahindra GippsAero's GA8TC-320 Airvan enthrals Mumbai". Indiainfoline.com. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
  4. 1 2 "Mahindra Aero bets on components - Money - DNA". Dnaindia.com. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
  5. ↑ "Mahindra plans Rs 285cr aerospace facility - Times Of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
  6. ↑ "Mahindra Aerospace looking for strategic investors including OEMs and tier I suppliers". Invest in India. 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
  7. ↑ "Aerospace". Mahindraengineering.com. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
  8. ↑ "Mahindra buys major stake in Australian firms". The Hindu. 16 December 2009. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  9. ↑ "M&M buys two Aussie aerospace cos". The Economic Times. 16 December 2009.
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