Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS and state-owned Indian aerospace and defence company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will lay the basis for future strategic cooperation in the field of on-board systems for HAL’s current and future aircraft programmes.
The two companies will combine resources to identify and define the best solutions for HAL’s fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft in landing gears, actuation, air management and power conversion systems. This is another venture between the two companies who have been collaborating for several decades.
Liebherr Aerospace is based in Toulouse, France and is one of eleven divisional control companies within the Liebherr Group and coordinates all activities in the aerospace and transportation systems sectors. The company has been a leading supplier of systems for the aviation industry for more than six decades.
HAL began manufacturing aircraft under the name Hindustan Aircraft in the 1940s and was rebranded in 1964 as Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. Currently HAL has 11 dedicated research and development (R&D) centres and 21 manufacturing divisions under four production units spread across India.
