India’s Tata and France’s Airbus have teamed up to manufacture H125 helicopters together, announced India’s Ministry of External Affairs. “Industrial partnership between Tata and Airbus helicopters for production of H125 Helicopters with a significant indigenous and localisation component,” said India’s Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra while talking to media in New Delhi on January 26. Equipped with a Safran Helicopter Engines, H125 is known for its versatility and performance. In 2005, the H125 made the highest-altitude landing and takeoff on Mount Everest at 8,848 metres (29,029 feet), according to Airbus.
