Make in India: Aequs signs pact to supply components for Boeing's Chinook helicopter

HYDERABAD: Dutch firm Fokker Technologies, a division of GKN Aerospace, and aerospace manufacturer Aequs on Thursday signed an agreement to supply machined components for Boeing's Chinook heavy lift helicopter that India is also buying.

Under the Long Term Agreement (LTA), Aequs will supply machined detail parts which will be made in India for the Chinook heavy lift helicopter.

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Fokker Technologies will build the parts into final sub-assemblies in facilities in Papendrecht, the Netherlands.

Aequs was selected after a careful process of qualification, proving the ability and affordability through trial production, Boeing said in a statement.

"Boeing is rapidly expanding its supplier footprint in the country to reinforce our commitment to ' Make in India' and we have doubled our sourcing from India in the last 12 months," Boeing India President Pratyush Kumar said.

American aviation giant Boeing had in October said it plans to assemble either its Chinook heavy-lift helicopters or Apache attack choppers in India.

India had in September signed a contract for purchase of 15 Chinook and 22 Apache helicopters.