Mahindra Aerospace Private Ltd and Canada's Viking Air Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a strategic alliance to support and take advantage of India's growing regional air connectivity opportunities. The MOU was signed during the on-going visit of Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, to India.
India's diverse market landscape offers numerous options for Viking and Mahindra Aerospace to leverage their unique and complementary resources for a mutually beneficial collaboration to develop regional air transportation solutions.
Under this alliance, Mahindra Aerospace and Viking will work together to support each other's non-competing aircraft business to boost market penetration in identified territories and provide potential customers with multiple options based on specific operational requirements.
Viking produces the Twin Otter Series 400, a world-renowned, versatile, 19-passenger, twin-engine utility turboprop aircraft that is capable of operating from multiple surfaces (including water). Mahindra Aerospace produces the 8-seat utility piston aircraft, the Mahindra Airvan 8, and the 10-seat turboprop utility aircraft, the Mahindra Airvan 10 and will in due course also launch these aircraft in Ski and Float versions The combined range of the 8-, 10- and 19-seat wheeled and float-equipped aircraft offered by Viking and Mahindra Aerospace provides several solutions especially well-suited to India's varied geography, operating conditions, and regional connectivity requirements.
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