Islamabad, May 10: Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has said that it would start manufacturing parts for us-based aircraft giant Boeing from next month which would enable it to formally join the club of aviation parts makers.
Air Marshal Aurengzeb, Chief of Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Kamra, which was poised to manufacture JF-17 fighter developed jointly by Pakistan and China, told the media yesterday that Boeing aircraft co has set up a parts manufacturing unit in PAC.
PAC is the manufacturing unit of the PAF.
“At this factory through Boeing offset programme, we shall be manufacturing aviation parts for Boeing 747, 767 and 777 aircraft,” the official news agency quoted Aurengzeb as saying.
“Around 20 parts of Boeing aircraft would be manufactured here for the Boeing company which has set up parts manufacturing plant as part of the agreement for supply of 777 aircraft to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA),” said another senior officer of PAC during a visit to the under-installation plant unit, the news agency reported.
He said parts of Boeing would be manufactured here and sent to the company for their onward sale and supply.
The technicians of Boeing are working on the installation of the plant which would be completed by end this month and would start production from next month, the official said.
A couple of years back PIA had placed orders for supply of eight 777 series aircraft. Some of these aircraft are included in PIA’s fleet while the rest would be inducted in the days ahead.
right path, use defence manufacturing infra structure for some commercial use as US(lockhead martin, boeing) , UK(BAE, roll royace ,) and France(Thale, Airbus etc) has done in past, started as defence companies then commercialised
wat:eek: nuts and bolts for boeing will made in pakistan.Air India must now rethink its plan to buy 50 planes from boeing.they dont want them to come apart in mid air:D
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Now as a bonus offer we will ensure it happens on the ground than mid-air
Lets see ! Than we have the Indian use gas pipe-line running through the length and width of Paki territory , hmmmm, things are looking up I guess. :elmo:
Some conceit for the most accident prone aviation sector in the world....i.e. India....Indian tailee/grease ball engineers at the numerous airlines proping up in india, veterans of DODO (DRDO) organization's enormous wastage of Indian exchequer, would run all the aircraft into ground within a few years, regardless of where the parts came from.....The mighty Air Sena of Bhindia managed to crash 200 aircrafts in one single year in the late ninties.....
The Indian Air Fart's Mig-21's were known amongst its pilots as 'flying coffins' during the ill-fated '90s when they had the worst attrition record from any air force.
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