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Andhra Pradesh will build India’s first “giga-scale” electric air taxi manufacturing cluster in Anantapur, with Karnataka-based Sarla Aviation committing an investment of INR 1,300 crore.
The partnership was announced on 18th November 2025, following the signing of an MoU by Sarla Aviation and the Andhra Pradesh Airport Development Corporation Ltd at the CII Partnership Summit 2025 in Visakhapatnam. The development follows Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s new announcement that the state will begin producing drone taxis in two years.
At the centre of the plan is the upcoming “Sky Factory”, which Sarla says will rank amongst the world’s largest facilities for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. In the first phase, the company will invest 330 crores to set up a 150-acre manufacturing and testing campus at Thimmasamduram village in Kalyanadurg mandal. The site will have production lines, R&D labs, composite units and a dedicated 2-km runway for testing and certification.
A second phase will increase the facility by another 350 acres. Once fully operational, the Sky Factory will produce up to 1,000 aircraft a year, including Sarla’s Shunya hybrid VTOL and a range of indigenously built electrical harnesses, landing gear systems and composite structures.
The project will generate high-value employment by 2027, starting with 40 specialized positions and 140 indirect jobs.
Rakesh Gaonkar, cofounder and CTO at Sarla Aviation, said the project is designed to place India at the centre of next-gen aviation. “With the world’s biggest Sky Factory, we want to make India the nerve centre for the next era of flight. This giga facility will shape the aircraft of the future and establish India as a force in sustainable aerial mobility,” he said.
APADCL will act as a tactical facilitator to fast-track the project and build the surrounding ecosystem. The state government said the association marks a major step in its push to establish Andhra Pradesh as a hub for cutting-edge manufacturing, aerospace innovation and green mobility.
Source: Business Today
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