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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Shri Saket Chaturvedi, MROs for receiving the major mainte-
nance support. HAL has made a vision to
CEO (MiG Complex) make India a Global MRO Hub offering
complete range of services to customer
airlines for Airframe MRO, Component
Hindustan Aeronautics MRO and other specialized MRO ser-
vices for which airlines are dependent
on foreign MRO companies.
Limited In an exclusive establish a credible MRO hub in the
We have carved out a phased plan to
country. For achieving goals of our vi-
interview with MRO sion, HAL has collaborated with Airbus
to establish 6 yearly C Checks facility
for Airbus 320 series of aircraft at HAL
Business Today Nasik. We are targeting to achieve the
DGCA and EASA certification for our
facilities within next 2-3 years. Subse-
quently the C Checks facility will be up
graded to achieve structure repair and
Q - HAL has set its sight on building an other major MRO requirements of the
integrated MRO centre in India. How do airlines/customers. The existing vast
you plan to achieve this target? infrastructure, machineries and techni-
Ans: As it is known that HAL is the cal acumen of HAL will help to build a
largest aviation design, manufacturing strong MRO centre capable to provide
and MRO support company for military lower lead time and reduced cost to the
aircraft in India. Major military plat- customer airlines.
forms are manufactured and supplied
by HAL for which we are providing full Q - Currently the MRO work done in
MRO support. However, MRO capability India is very limited, mostly to
for civil aircraft is available airframe maintenance. Do you
in the country with only plan to eventually branch out
some limited scope. your capabilities to component
The country is and engine overhaul?
dependent upon Ans: This issue provides a good in-
the foreign sight into the existing MRO condi-
third party tions in the country. Today airlines
in India are able to receive or
perform only the airframe mainte-
nance for their fleet. More
than 80% of the major
maintenance work like
structure repair, MRO
of components, land-
ing gears and Engines
is being performed outside
the country. So as part of our
vision to provide full range
of maintenance services to
airlines we eventually seek
to establish the remaining
MRO capabilities like Land-
ing Gears MRO, component
MROs ( for Hydraulic, pneu-
matic & fuel, and Electrical
components), and Engine
MRO. We are targeting these
areas with a time frame of 4-5

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