Tata-Boeing JV delivers 100th Apache fuselage in just three years

TBAL delivered its first Apache fuselage in May 2018 and in three years has made its 100th delivery

Tata Boeing Aerospace (TBAL), a joint venture (JV) between The Boeing Company and Tata Advanced Systems (TASL), announced on Friday the delivery of the 100th fuselage it has fabricated for the AH-64 Apache combat helicopter.

TBAL fabricates the fuselages in Hyderabad. They are then transported to Boeing’s AH-64 Apache integration line in Mesa, Arizona, in the US, where they are assembled into fully built helicopters and shipped out to Apache customers around the globe.

TBAL, Boeing’s first equity JV in India, is the result of a 2015 partnership agreement with TASL. Spread over 14,000 square meters, the state-of-the-art manufacturing facility