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A caller defence Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) installation to enactment the C-130J Super Hercules craft volition beryllium established successful Bengaluru.
On December 8, Tata Advanced Systems and Lockheed Martin announced the groundbreaking of the caller MRO. Construction is expected to beryllium completed successful 2026 and the installation expects to person the archetypal C130 for MRO operations successful aboriginal 2027.
Sukaran Singh, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Tata Advanced Systems, and Frank St. John, Chief Operating Officer, Lockheed Martin astatine the ground-breaking ceremonial of Tata Advanced Systems C-130 Defence MRO Facility successful Bengaluru, connected December 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The MRO installation volition articulation the existing planetary web of Lockheed Martin Certified Service Centers and volition beryllium strategically located to work the C-130J Super Hercules, KC-130J and C-130 B-H bequest craft successful the future.
The C‑130 MRO installation is located astatine Bhatramarenahalli adjacent the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA). It volition supply depot‑level and dense maintenance, constituent repair, overhaul, and structural checks and testing, structural restoration and avionics upgrades, expanded grooming for Indian engineers and maintainers, and caller opportunities for Indian suppliers crossed the C‑130 proviso chain.
Frank St. John, Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin, said, “Today’s groundbreaking reflects however acold our collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and India has come, and wherever we’re headed together. For much than 7 decades, we’ve grown alongside India’s expanding aerospace and defence concern base. This caller C-130 MRO installation strengthens that foundation. It brings world-class sustainment capableness into India, improves readiness for the Indian Air Force, and creates opportunities that volition enactment determination and planetary C-130 operators. We stay committed to gathering capableness for India and from India for decades to come.”
Rod McLean, vice-president and wide manager, Lockheed Martin Air Mobility and Maritime Missions, said, “The C-130J Super Hercules is simply a proven workhorse for India’s subject and humanitarian missions.This defence MRO installation volition bolster effect clip and information successful the Pacific, guarantee world-class sustainment capableness wrong India, aligning with the country’s ambitions portion advancing sustainment capableness for the C-130J fleet crossed the globe.”
