Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is a major aerospace company under the Ministry of Defence headquartered in Bangalore, India.The company is mainly involved in manuacturing aircraft, aerospace, navigation and communication equipment.

It built the first military aircraft constructed in South Asia and is currently involved in the design, fabrication and assembly of aircraft, jet engines, helicopters and their components and spares. It has facilities that are located throughout India including Nasik, Korwa, Kanpur, Koraput, Lucknow, and Hyderabad. The German engineer Kurt Tank designed the HF-24 Marut fighter-bomber, the first indigenously designed fighter aircraft constructed in India.

Hindustan Aeronautics has a long history of collaboration with several other international and domestic aerospace agencies such as the Sukhoi Aviation Corporation, Israel Aircraft Industries, Mikoyan-Gurevich, BAE Systems, Dornier Flugzeugwerke, Aeronautical Development Agency and Indian Space Research Organisation.Recently in July 2006 it entered into a joint venture agreement with Electronics display systems manufacturer Samtel which shall be developing and manufacturing avionics display systems for HAL.This is the first public-private partnership in the area of defence avionics.

  Indigenous designs:

* HT-2
* HPT-32 Deepak
* HUL-26 Pushpak
* HAOP-27 Krishak
* HA-31 Basant
* HJT-16 Kiran — Mk1, Mk1A and Mk2
* HF-24 Marut — Mk1 and Mk1T
* Lakshya — Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
* Tejas — Light Combat Aircraft
* Dhruv — Advanced Light Helicopter
* HJT-36 — Intermediate Jet Trainer

Licensed production:

* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 — FL,M,Bis,Bison Upgrades variants
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27 — M variant
* SEPECAT Jaguar— IS,IB,IM variants
* Aerospatiale Alouette III — HAL Chetak, Chetan Variants
* SA 315 Lama — HAL Cheetah, Lancer, Cheetal Variants
* Dornier Do 228
* HAL HS 748 Avro
* Sukhoi Su-30MKI
* BAe Hawk Yet to start

Type:             Public (BSE)
Founded:       1940 (in 1964, company took on current name), Bangalore
Headquarters:Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Key people:     Ashok. K. Baweja (Chairman), Fakruddin Mohammad (Director Corporate Planning and Marketing)
Industry:     Aerospace and defense
Products:     Aerospace equipment
Military aircraft Communication & Navigation equipment

Revenue:     44.25 billion INR (FY 2004)
(INR 8.25B)
Employees:     9,500
Website:     www.hal-india.com