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Bombardier, Bangalore’s new aerospace arrival, has opened a 20-person engineering service office.
The Canada-based aircraft maker has just tested the Bangalore team’s design of doors and mid-fuselage for ‘Cseries’ planes. Cseries is its forthcoming 100-150-seater regional transport aircraft.
The team also provides engineering design, structural analysis and stress tests for the company’s current and future projects.
Hiring
Bombardier plans to hire another 30 highly skilled engineers by the end of 2013, said Mr Jean Seguin, company’s Vice-President, Quality, Engineering and Manufacturing. He did not give investment figures. “We are looking at other areas of work but that is not for now.’’
The third commercial plane maker after Airbus and Boeing recently bagged orders from SpiceJet for 15 Q400 aircraft and from Air India for four CRJ700s.
Jet orders
It has sold 40 business jets — the highest — to Indian buyers. It expects 1,330 business jets to be bought here in the next 20 years. Globally the aircraft and rail transportation major has three-year jet orders worth $22 billion, he said.
Locally “The ESO will be our ambassador and help us to increase the level of work we do’’ in the country. Next, it plans tie-ups with universities and colleges.
Another 870 Indian engineers are working on its projects; 400 of them are through five local partners - TCS, Mahindra Satyam, QuEST, CADES and CapGemini
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