Top indian aerospace news round up

Mr Dataram Mishra, MD and CEO, CADES said, "It’s a great achievement for CADES. We are proud to be associated with EADS family!" This perhaps is the biggest indian aerospace news for the last week. After nearly two years of rigorous evaluation for technical capability, project management, quality, IT, security and commercial considerations; EADS has selected CADES as an E2S preferred supplier for engineering services. Read more here



Well after this news some of us might thing that in India, we will get the routine boring job, but this isn't the case as a study by Duke and Harvard shows that Indian and Chinese companies are performing the most advanced types of R&D for multinational corporations. The report highlights that in aerospace we are taking the lead and getting at par with the developed nations. Read more about it here

It's not only EADS which is finding partners in india, Swiss aerospace companies are not behind as there was this news of HAL signing a deal with Swiss aerospace company Ruag to manufacture the new generation of Dornier-228 aircraft. Read the full story here.

Talking about HAL, it is extremely happy an pleased about its show at the Berlin air show. They did lot of business and also generated interest for there products. Read what M. Balamaran, General Manager Marketing, HAL has to say about this.



Well HAL is getting collaboration but NAL is also not quite as the national aerospace labs are working overtime on the regional transport aircraft. Kota harinarayana mooted the idea of manufacturing a light passenger aircraft at a university convocation ceremony.


If you remember last week Mahinda and Mahindra acquired a foreign design firm, this time it was the turn of Tooltech, an India based engineering services group. This group has recently acquired two midsized automotive engineering companies in Sweden. Ideteknik and Aspinova. Both of this have high profile aerospace and automotive clients. A clear sign by the group to make a mark in aerospace.

So this were the main Indian aero news of last week. And indian space program will get a big leap as the reports are there that Indian first mission to moon chandrayaan might launch on 19th September. Read more about this here.