Prime Minister & French President virtually inaugurate Final Assembly Line of H-125 Light Utility Helicopter at Vemagal, Karnataka

• Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL)–Airbus Helicopters Final Assembly Line (FAL) for the H-125 Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) at Vemagal, Kolar district, Karnataka, virtually inaugurated on 17 February 2026 by PM Modi and French President Macron from Mumbai.
• Second major TASL–Airbus aerospace FAL in India after the C-295 transport aircraft plant at Vadodara, deepening the India-France strategic partnership and Make in India in rotorcraft.
• Examinable as a defence-indigenisation + bilateral-diplomacy datapoint coinciding with the AI Impact Summit 2026 Macron visit (16–19 Feb 2026).