Tata Lockheed Martin Aerostructures (TLMAL) on Wednesday said it recently delivered the 200th C-130J Super Hercules empennage from its manufacturing facility in Adibatla here, an announcement that turned the spotlight once more on the defence and aerospace manufacturing ecosystem of Hyderabad and the Centre’s Make In India emphasis.
An empennage is the tail structure located at the rear of an aircraft. Empennage assemblies produced by the company include the aircraft’s horizontal and vertical stabilisers along with leading edges and tip assemblies. The empennages made by TLMAL are included in C-130Js operated by seven countries, including India.
The C-130Js support critical worldwide search and rescue, peacekeeping, combat delivery, maritime patrol, special operations, aerial refuelling, commercial cargo transport, medevac and humanitarian response missions, TLMAL said. The company exemplifies the Make In India initiative and has the distinction of being the single global source of C-130J empennage assemblies installed on all new Super Hercules aircraft produced in Marietta, Georgia, in the US, it said.
