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Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday said it is time for India to look at manufacturing of aerospace products as he highlighted the growth potential of the country's aviation sector. He also said domestic airlines are together projected to have a fleet of around 2,000 planes in the next five to seven years. It is time to look at manufacturing of aerospace products in India. "Time is ripe for manufacturing to take off in India," he said. Speaking at a summit organised by aviation consultancy CAPA here, the minister said, "we need to increase the ecosystem of Indian civil aviation". "Come and be part of the civil aviation growth story," he said. According to him, as many as 15 Flying Training Organisations (FTOs) are expected to be set up by the end of this year, taking the total number of FTOs to 50. Currently, there are 35 FTOs.
The medical team at Seppa in Arunachal Pradesh had been confronting the challenge of supplying medicines and vaccines in difficult terrains of the mountainous region but not anymore. Startup company Redwing Aerospace Labs in Bengaluru has developed an indigenously developed medical drone called 'Crane' which has been deployed in the frontier state in the northeast. The drone manufacturer is among many aerospace companies thriving in Bengaluru owing to the 'aerospace ecosystem' prevailing in the city. The ongoing Aero India-2023, which is the 14th edition of the biennial event in Bengaluru, gives a glimpse of the flourishing aerospace industry here as a significant number of stalls are occupied by city-based firms. Many aerospace firms here are not only supplying products and services to "biggies" such as Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Indian Space Research Organisation, Defence Research and Development Organisation and Bharat Electronics Limited but also to several multinational ..
Skyroot Aerospace, which successfully launched the country's first private rocket Vikram-S recently, plans to launch Vikram-1, a much bigger rocket to place satellites into orbit, within a year. The Hyderabad-based space startup also aims to slash costs of space travel in the future. "..now that we have done first private rocket launch, Vikram-S, our next plan is to launch Vikram-1 which is a much bigger rocket putting satellites into orbit. That we want to do within a year from now," Pawan Chandana, co-founder of Skyroot, told PTI here Monday evening. Skyroot also wants to become one of the first few companies in the world who can place satellites into orbit. He said the firm has raised about USD 68 million, which is the largest in the aerospace startup ecosystem in India. "Of course, it took close to four years to raise this kind of capital. Now, we are good for first few launches to orbit and then, of course, it has been very challenging because first time somebody went to the