Mahindra Aerospace

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Mahindra Aerospace
Type Private
Industry Aerospace
Founded 2003[1]
Founder(s) Anand Mahindra
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharastra, 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 Official Website

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]

The prototype Airvan in front of the Latrobe Valley Aero Club c. 1999
A Civil Air Patrol GA8 Airvan on takeoff from West Houston Airport during a mission following Hurricane Rita in 2005.

GippsAero

Gippsland Aeronautics was founded by Peter Furlong and George Morgan. The company started operations at the Latrobe Regional Airport in Morwell in the 1970s as an aircraft maintenance and modification business working for large organisations such as the National Safety Council of Australia and Esso Australia, as well as local commercial operators.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Peter Furlong and John Brown were pilots, builders, fabricators and maintenance personnel for, amongst others, the Latrobe Valley Aircraft Club and the Ultra Light Club of Australia. The company builds single-engined utility aircraft. These include the multi-role GA8 Airvan and the agricultural GA200 Fatman. The company is owned by Indian conglomerate Mahindra Group. In December,2009 Mahindra Aerospace Pvt. Ltd. (MAPL), belonging to Mahindra Group of India acquired a 75.1% majority stake and the company was renamed GippsAero.

Aerostaff Australia

Aerostaff Australia (AA) is a component manufacturer of high-precision, close-tolerance, aircraft components and assemblies for large aerospace original equipment manufacturers. AA’s acquisition will help M&M tap the burgeoning defence offset and commercial aviation market.

Products

Manufacturing Plant

Mahindra Group had announced to set up 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.

Acquisition

  • Gippsland Aeronautics - Dec, 2009
  • Aerostaff Australia - Dec, 2009
  • Boeing unit - Australia - June 2010

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. 4.0 4.1 "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. 

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