LCA Tejas Division has been primarily established to take up the production of LCA Tejas aircraft. State of the art manufacturing facilities have been created exclusively in the Division for the LCA program. The Division currently functions at Plant I and Plant II.

Plant I

Plant I

Plant II

Plant II

The salient points of the production facilities available at Plant I and Plant II are tabulated
below:

PLANT I

  • Area: 26 Acre
  • Machine Shop with diverse CNC Machines
  • Structural Assembly Hangars
  • Loom Shop
  • Equipping & Final Assembly Hangar
  • Dedicated Drop Tank & Pylon Shop
  • Robust Storage and Retrieval System
  • Quality Controlled Labs for LRUs testing
  • Wing Assy hangar with Robotic drilling machine
  • State of the art Aircraft Paint Shop
  • Pre Installation check LAB for Aircraft Systems

PLANT II

  • Area: 35 Acre
  • Dedicated Production Line for Exports
  • Structural Assembly Hangar
  • Pipe & Welding Shop
  • Sheet Metal shop
  • Automated Heat Treatment with Ion Nitriding facility
  • Process shop
  • Huge Store Bays
  • Detail Parts Paint shop
  • Effluent Treatment Plant

1 ) LCA Tejas Division was awarded “Unnatha Suraksha Puraskar” –Safety Award 2023 National Safety Council, Karnataka Chapter has awarded LCA Tejas Division the “Unnatha Suraksha Puraskara” Safety Award 2023. The award was given in recognition of the ‘Best Management Systems and Safety performance during 2021 and 2022.

2 ) LCA Tejas Division was awarded “Uttama Suraksha Puraskar” –Safety Award 2021 National Safety Council, Karnataka Chapter has awarded LCA Tejas Division the “Uttama Suraksha Puraskara” Safety Award 2021. The award was given in recognition of the ‘Good Management Systems and Safety performance during 2019 and 2020.

3) LCA Tejas Division was awarded “Uttama Suraksha Puraskar” –Safety Award 2019 National Safety Council, Karnataka Chapter has awarded LCA Tejas Division the “Uttama Suraksha Puraskara” Safety Award 2019. The award was given in recognition of the ‘Good Management Systems and Safety performance during 2017 and 2018.

4)  LCA Tejas Division was awarded “Uttama Suraksha Puraskar” –Safety Award 2017 National Safety Council, Karnataka Chapter has awarded LCA Tejas Division the “Uttama Suraksha Puraskara” Safety Award 2017. The award was given in recognition of the ‘Good Management Systems and Safety performance during 2015 and 2016.

LCA Tejas Division is playing the lead integrator role for LCA Tejas aircraft production cycle. Accordingly, Division has outsourced all the major assemblies including Front Fuselage, Centre Fuselage, Rear Fuselage, Wing, Air Intake, Fin and Rudder. Apart from business partnersdeveloped by Division for structural modules, more than 200 Indian Companies are involved in supply of detail parts, Tooling, Ground Support and Handling Equipment supplies. LCA Tejas Division is looking forward for more business partners in the following areas:

  • Structural assemblies
  • Machining
  • Sheet metal forming
  • CNC / Manual Pipe bending
  • Surface and heat treatment
  • Detail / assembly tool manufacture
  • Development of Tools, Tester and Ground handling equipment

LCA Tejas is a 4.5 generation, all weather and multi-role fighter aircraft. The aircraft is designed to be a multi-role aircraft capable of taking up offensive air support, close combat and ground attack role at ease. It is also designed to undertake Ground Maritime Operations. The different variants of aircraft under production and development are:
• Single seater fighter for Air Force
• Single seater fighter for Navy
• Twin Seater trainer aircraft for Air Force
• Twin Seater trainer version for Navy

Further LCA Mk1A is the most advanced version of the LCA Tejas. It is equipped with AESA Radar, EW suite consisting of radar warning and self-protection jamming, Digital Map Generator (DMG), Smart Multi-function Displays (SMFD), Combined Interrogator and Transponder (CIT), Advanced Radio Altimeter and other advances features. The technical specifications of the aircraft are tabulated below:

Specification

Value
Length

13.2 m
Width

8.2 m
Height

4.4 m
Max Takeoff Mass

13,500 Kgs
Engine

GE F404-IN20
Engine Thrust (A/B)

85 KN
G limits

+8g / -3.5g
Max speed

1.6 Mach
Service ceiling

50,000 feet
No of Hard Points

09

 

The key characteristics of LCA are:

Smallest & lightest aircraft in its class Dimensionally smallest which is coupled with Extensive use of composite structure to make the aircraft lighter
Excellent flight safety record Remarkable achievement of accident free flying.
Compound Tail-Less Delta Increases the capacity to carry wider range of weapons like Bombs, Missiles etc
In Flight Refueling (IFR) Probe Enhances range during mission undertaken. IFR capability has been proven for day and night operations.
Open Architecture based Mission Computer Indigenously designed which provides interoperability, scalability and portability
Quadruplex-Redundant Fly¬By-Wire Fully redundant quadruplex digital fly-by-wire flight control system to ease handling by the pilot
AESA RADAR Electronically Scanned Array RADAR with low probability of interception.
Variety of Weapons LCA-Tejas is having 9 hard points and is capable to fire variety of weapons like Long Range BVR & WVR missiles, Bombs etc. with required precision and accuracy.

Other Products: Apart from the production of LCA-Tejas Aircraft, Division is also engaged with production of all the support equipment such as Tools, Testers, Ground Handling Equipment including Maintenance Simulators of different types.

Divisional brochure

 

General Manager
LCA Tejas Division
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (Bangalore Complex)
Post Box No – 3791
Bangalore – 560037,
India

Tel: +91 80 22323585;  Fax: +91 80 22323827
Email: gm[dot]lcatd[at]hal-india[dot]co[dot]in