Boeing mulls assembling helicopters in India
New Delhi, Oct 16: Global aircraft manufacturing company Boeing on Friday said it is looking at setting up a chopper assembly line in India. According to a top official of the company, the assembly line will either be for the Apache combat helicopter or the Chinook heavy-lift chopper. Recently, Boeing closed a deal to sell 22 Apache combat helicopters and 15 Chinook CH-47F heavy-lift copters to India. Boeing Chairman James McNerney said at an event here that the aircraft manufacturer was evaluating assembling one of these two helicopters in India. Currently, the beams, or the spine, of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft are being made in a Nagpur facility. The company said it was willing to take part in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make-in-India' initiative.