Air Works delivers sixth P-8I to Indian Navy

The heavy maintenance of these aircraft was successfully completed at the Air Works facility at Hosur, Tamil Nadu.

D Anand Bhaskar, managing director and CEO, Air Works Group said: “We are grateful to both Boeing and the Indian Navy for their trust in Air Works to deliver on such a unique and mission-critical project for the very first time in the country. Not only has every successful inspection increased our confidence of managing such intricate and specialised projects on behalf of our defence forces, but the fact that we have been able to value add with our ingenuity and decades-long experience to enhance the quality of maintenance of these premium assets, has particularly boosted our motivation and self-assurance. This is an incredibly proud moment for the everyone at Air Works, especially the P-8I project team - who have transformed their ardent passion into a brilliant outcome, and we look forward to expanding our collaboration horizon.”

“One of the key learning of this project has been that aviation & aerospace OEMs must take a leaf from Boeing’s BIRDS hub initiative and partner with domestic MROs like Air Works, to successfully realise the Government’s Make-in-India programme, to scale up local maintenance capabilities and ensure that more and more maintenance assignments – irrespective of their complexity or their nature - civil or defence - are undertaken within the country, for cost effectiveness and to create a strategic depth.” he added.