Bell Helicopter mulls MRO operations and pilot and engineering training in India

New Delhi: US-based Bell Helicopter, a unit of Textron Inc, is mulling establishing a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in India, according to a Dow Jones Newswires report which quotes a senior company executive.

"We are looking at an MRO in India, but it's in the preliminary stages,'' the report quoted Max E Wiley, Bell Helicopter's vice-president of Asia Pacific sales, as saying.

According to the report, Wiley also said that the company also hopes to finalize a pilot and engineering services training school in India by the end of the year.