Airbus to tie up with HAL for MRO at Nashik: Praful Patel

Nagpur: Airbus is likely to enter into a tie-up with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), for setting up a $100 million maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility at Nashik in Maharashtra, Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said.
"They (Airbus) want to have a tie-up with HAL and the latter has two bases, one at Bangalore and in Nashik and we have requested Airbus to select Nasik, which will be convenient to both," Patel said in Nagpur on Monday.
Another aircraft manufacturing major Boeing has already signed a MoU with Maharashtra government and state-owned Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC) for setting up a MRO in the city.
Nashik would be an ideal location to decongest the Mumbai-Pune industrial belt, Patel said.
02/10/06 Press Trust of India/Hindustan Times

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