China, Pakistan, Turkiye… everyone kept watching and THIS big European company made a special deal with Ratan Tata’s Tata Group

Tata-Airbus to Helicopter Assembly: Tata and European company Airbus will now jointly manufacture helicopters in Karnataka. Airbus is a big european company which manufactures airplanes and helicopters.

Written by: Nivedita Dash Edited by: Nivedita Dash

Updated: May 27, 2025, 4:55 PM IST

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Following the success of Made in India weapons during the recent Operation Sindoor, many foreign companies are now showing interest in India’s defence sector. Recently, after Russia and Israel, now a European company is also going to work in India in collaboration with Tata Group.

Actually, European aviation company Airbus and Tata Group’s aerospace branch Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) are going to do a big work together. They will set up a final assembly line (FAL) for H125 helicopters in Kolar, Karnataka. This will be India’s first private helicopter assembly facility. This is a big success for the government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign. Under this campaign, the government is trying to become self-reliant in aerospace manufacturing.

Not even the name of China-Pakistan

This factory will make Airbus’s best-selling H125 helicopters which will be for India and neighboring countries. This will be the fourth such facility in the world after France, America and Brazil by completing isolating China, Pakistan and Turkey. Initially, there will be a capacity to make 10 helicopters every year here. But Airbus hopes that in the next 20 years there will be a demand for 500 light helicopters of the H125 class in India and South Asia, so it will be expanded.

According to sources, the plant will be set up in the Vemgal Industrial Area, which is about two hours away from Bengaluru. TASL already has other facilities here, including a satellite manufacturing plant.

Sources said Karnataka was chosen among several locations like Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat because the state already has a good system of aerospace manufacturing.

Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh was also a strong contender. It had gained international recognition after Kia Motors’ manufacturing unit there. But Karnataka was chosen because TASL has a strong support system here. TASL will build this plant.

Big work of Tata’s company

Tata’s company recently bought a 7.4 lakh sq ft plot in Karnataka’s Vemgal Industrial Area. An aircraft manufacturing and final assembly line, including maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities, will be set up here.

A person associated with the project said that the locations were chosen based on their logistics facilities, expansion potential, availability of skilled workforce and promises from the state government such as fast track approval of permissions.