Hindustan Aeronautics Limited News

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to showcase avionics expertise at Avionics Expo-2023 in New Delhi, highlighting contributions to self-reliance, inaugurated by Chief of Defence Staff.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited will now enter the aircraft servicing industry with its new partnership with Airbus, which is trying to tap the MRO industry in India.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Safran Aircraft Engines will now be manufacturing engine parts for LEAP power plants that are used on Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 family.

Indian Air Force is handed over its first-ever twin-seater Tejas Trainer aircraft by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

The board of directors of the company will meet on Tuesday, June 27, to discuss a proposal to divide its equity shares, according to a filing made on Thursday by the company.

The Indian Air Force has inducted Made-In-India Light Combat Helicopter made by HAL into the IAF fleet and the LCH has been developed primarily for mountain warfare after a requirement for it was felt during the Kargil war in 1999.

The five-year contract spanning from 2023 to 2028 is valued at Rs 2,400 crore. The deal involves supplying critical avionics Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), flight control computers and night flying LRUs. Deliveries under 83 Tejas Mk1A order to IAF will commence from 2023-24.

The application process has begun on December 4, 2021 The upper age limit for the candidates is 26 years

This is the largest ever deal and the purchase order placed by HAL for LCA The F404 family of engines has proven itself in operations all over the world

The candidates must be ITI passed from the respective trades and must be recognized by NCVT The selected candidates will get a monthly stipend as per the Apprentices Act 1961

The biggest cryogenic propellant tank ever fabricated by HAL was given to ISRO on Monday. The C32-LH2 tank is a developmental cryogenic propellant tank of aluminium alloy.

The company has posted revenue growth of around 7 per cent during 2019-20 for the second year consecutively, post listing as compared to 3.8 per cent during 2017-18.

Indian Air Force (IAF) is a step closer to getting a fully combat-ready indigenous supersonic fighter with the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas in Final Operational Clearance-standard (SP-21) making its first successful test flight in Bengaluru on Tuesday (March 17, 2020). Tejas FOC(SP-21), piloted by former Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Commodore and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Chief Test Flying (Fixed Wing) KA Muthana (retired), was in the air for 40 minutes.

Chairman and Managing Director of HAL R Madhavan said an amount of Rs 9,600 crore will be required for design as well as to produce the prototype of the helicopter.

HAL had entered into a contract with the Indian Navy in August of 2017 for the supply of eight Chetak helicopters with the delivery schedule of the first two in August of 2019 and the rest in August of 2020.

Minister of State Defence Shripad Naik said that the manufacturing capacity for the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft has been ramped up from eight planes to 16 per year.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said that the present capacity available with HAL is adequate to fulfil the existing orders/projects in hand.

HAL's reported a Profit After Tax (PAT) of Rs. 2,282 crores for the FY 2018-19, an increase of 14.8% over Rs 1,987 crore in the corresponding previous year. An interim dividend of Rs 662 crores has already been paid by HAL for the year 2018-19.

Sitharaman said the requirement of the Air Force was higher in 2001 but after 20 years the situation has changed.

The company claims it is planning to make the F/A-18 Super Hornet, which it says will deliver on India’s need for an aircraft carrier and land-based multi-role fighter, under the "Make in India" scheme.