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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 2003 [1] |
| Founder | Anand Mahindra |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India [2] |
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| Parent | Mahindra Group |
| Subsidiaries | GippsAero |
| Website | www |
Mahindra Aerospace is an Indian aerospace company, part of the Mahindra Group. [5] [6] It is the first Indian private firm to make smaller civil aircraft for the Indian general aviation market. [4] It is an AS9100 Rev.D certified design organization. [7]
The parent Mahindra & Mahindra group acquired a 75.1% majority stake in December 2009 of Australian aircraft manufacturer Gippsland Aeronautics, builder of the Gippsland GA200, Gippsland GA8 Airvan and the Gippsland GA10 Airvan. The company was renamed GippsAero. [8]
Also in December 2009 the Mahindra & Mahindra group also acquired a 75.1% stake in Aerostaff Australia, [9] a component manufacturer of high-precision, close-tolerance, aircraft components and assemblies for large aerospace original equipment manufacturers.[ citation needed ]
In June 2010 the company acquired the Australian Boeing unit, an aerospace component manufacturer.[ citation needed ]
National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and Mahindra Aerospace jointly developed the NAL NM5 light aircraft.
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On 14 July 2019, a Gippsland GA8 Airvan crashed on a river islet in Sweden, killing all nine people on board. Structural failure of a wing is suspected as the cause of the accident. Consequently, the Gippsland GA8 Airvan was grounded by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) in Australia, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAANZ) in New Zealand and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in the European Union. The grounding order was issued on 20 July and was due to run until 3 August, but was lifted early as CASA found there was no evidence for an unsafe condition, and the EASA said the wrecked aircraft had been exposed to aerodynamic loads beyond the limits specified in the type-certification basis.
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