Tata Advanced Systems Ltd to manufacture Boeing 737 fan cowls in Hyderabad facility

Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. (TASL) has been awarded a contract for manufacturing and supply of the Boeing 737 fan cowl, the legendary single aisle aircraft family, at its state-of-the-art facility here, it said on Friday.

TASL will supply 50 per cent of the monthly 737 fan cowl requirements from FY 2025, a press release from TASL said.

Commenting on the new development, Sukaran Singh, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, TASL, said, the contract won in global competition is a significant milestone in the partnership with Boeing.

"Projects like these with Boeing and other global aerospace companies have greatly helped build TASL''s capabilities such that today TASL has the ability to build an entire aircraft or helicopter at high rate production, to global quality, in India," Singh said.

TASL also manufactures thousands of critical systems and components for some of Boeing''s most advanced products from its facilities in Nagpur, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

Further, TASL runs a manufacturing facility in Nagpur, where advanced composite floor beams for all the Boeing Dreamliner airplane variants are produced, according to the release.

The Tata-Boeing joint venture in Telangana manufactures fuselages for the Apache helicopters and recently added a new production line to produce vertical fin structures for the 737 family of airplanes.