Setting Up An MRO Facility In India

Approvals, Customs and Airport Land, and why the Three of them run on Different Clocks

What does it actually take, in law, to open the doors of an aircraft maintenance facility in India? Most feasibility studies stall at the same point, because promoters treat the project as one licensing exercise when it is really three running in parallel on different clocks. Airworthiness approval sits with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. Land and airside access sit with the airport operator, which will be either the Airports Authority of India or a private concessionaire holding a state lease. Duty and tax treatment sits with the customs and goods and services tax administration, and that is where the margin is usually won or lost. The MRO setup India legal requirements set out below follows that division deliberately, because an applicant who sequences them badly ends up holding a lease over land it cannot build on and a hangar it cannot certify.