Overview
- The pact was formalised alongside the inauguration of Embraer’s national office in Aerocity, New Delhi.
- The new accord expands a February 2024 MoU to include joint marketing, industrialisation, and exploration of Indian assembly, supply chain and MRO activity with the goal of building a C-390 hub.
- The collaboration targets the Indian Air Force’s Medium Transport Aircraft programme, though no contract award or production site selections have been announced.
- The C-390 Millennium is pitched with a 26-ton payload, operation from short or semi-prepared runways, and multi-mission roles spanning transport, medevac, search and rescue and firefighting.
- Embraer cites growing international uptake—including Brazil, Portugal and Hungary in service and recent European moves such as Sweden joining a framework with the Netherlands and Austria—to bolster the offer.