In a landmark moment for India's aerospace future, Sarla Aviation on Monday announced that the formal MoU for its upcoming 500-acre aerospace giga campus was signed and handed over personally by Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu in the presence of union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu and R&B Minister B C Janardhan Reddy.

Spread across 500-acres, this will be a next-generation integrated Urban Air Mobility (UAM) giga facility that will manufacture electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft and power India's entry into the era of aerial mobility. With an initial investment of Rs 1,300 crore and significant additional investment planned in the future, the project positions India as a global contender in future aviation technologies.

Commenting on the launch, Rakesh Gaonkar, Co-Founder, CTO, Sarla Aviation said on Monday "With the world's biggest sky factory, we want to make India a nerve centre for the next era of flight. This giga facility will shape the aircraft of the future, create thousands of high-skill jobs, and establish India as a global force in sustainable aerial mobility. Our goal is simple, let India design, build, test, fly, and operate the world's most advanced eVTOL systems from one integrated campus."

Once operational, the giga campus will become India's first fully integrated ecosystem for eVTOL manufacturing, flight testing, certification, training, and maintenance. Designed to international aerospace standards, the facility will have the capacity to produce up to 1,000 aircraft every year, making it one of the largest eVTOL manufacturing hubs worldwide.

The sky factory will bring together advanced manufacturing lines for composites,

powertrain, wire harnesses, landing gear systems, flight control computers and embedded systems, supported by India's largest wind tunnel and a dedicated two-kilometre runway and purpose-built VTOL testing pads. It will house modern D labs, simulation environments, pilot training centres, and MRO units, enabling the entire lifecycle of eVTOL aircraft to be built and supported within India for the first time.

Sarla Aviation is working closely with the Government of AP to co-develop infrastructure for certification and operational readiness. The collaboration will help build dedicated UAM corridors and vertiports, laying the groundwork for commercial air-taxi services across major South Indian cities by 2029.