Mumbai: EADS, the ¤34.2 billion aerospace and defence major, is negotiating with former BPL chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar promoted Jupiter Aviation to set up a freighter conversion facility, that will convert passenger aircraft into cargo planes. The estimated investment for the facility, which will undertake domestic and international projects, would be $100 million.
State-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) is also firming up plans for full fledged conversion centre for Boeing aircraft as part of its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) centre.
The plant would be developed on the lines of the Germany-based airplane converting firm EFW, a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS, which is the parent of Airbus Industrie.
The conversion of passenger aircraft into freighters, which costs between $7 million and $10 million, offers an economic alternative to the purchase of new freighter aircraft.
Sources said the details such as final investment, location, equity structure and business plan are yet to be finalised. Jupiter Aviation & Logistics CEO and managing director S Ravi Narayanan declined to comment adding “it is too premature to comment on this matter.”
Jupiter Aviation is the aviation venture development subsidiary of Jupiter Capital, a venture development, management and investment company founded by Rajeev Chandrasekhar in July 2005.
12/05/07 P R Sanjai/Business Standard
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