Airbus opened its new India Technology Centre in Bengaluru on 6 March 2026, an 880,000 sq ft campus built to seat about 5,000 people. It is the planemaker’s largest engineering and digital centre outside Europe. Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and Industries Minister M B Patil inaugurated the site, with Union Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu joining virtually.
Airbus is Europe’s largest aerospace group and one of the world’s two dominant makers of commercial jets, alongside its helicopter, defence and space businesses. In 2025 it delivered 793 commercial aircraft, posted revenue of €73.4 billion and ended the year with 165,294 employees.
What the centre will do
The campus brings engineering and innovation, digital, customer services and procurement teams together in one place. Its customer services unit provides maintenance, technical support and flight hour programmes to airlines around the world. A procurement hub coordinates sourcing from Indian suppliers. Research teams will work on next generation aircraft, cybersecurity, robotics and AI, and the site also hosts a local chapter of the Airbus Leadership University. Jürgen Westermeier, president and managing director of Airbus India and South Asia, said the campus gives the company room for its next phase of growth.
Why Bengaluru
Bengaluru is the centre of India’s aerospace industry, home to public sector aircraft makers, defence research labs and a large base of aeronautical and software engineers. Airbus has built its Indian engineering operation in the city over nearly two decades, and its H125 helicopter final assembly line is coming up at Vemagal, not far away in Karnataka.
Airbus’s India footprint
Airbus has been part of Indian aviation for more than six decades. Its Bengaluru engineering unit started small and grew into a multi disciplinary operation. The company sources from more than 100 Indian suppliers, which make parts such as aircraft doors, flap track beams and helicopter fuselages. Annual sourcing from India has risen from $500 million in 2019 to more than $1.5 billion, and Airbus expects it to pass $2 billion before 2030. Indian supply also feeds the C295 military transport assembly line in Vadodara.
What it signals
The new campus ties Airbus’s engineering work in India to a growing manufacturing and supply chain presence. With Indian airlines holding large aircraft orders and assembly lines taking shape locally, the country is becoming both a market and a production base for the group. For Bengaluru, it confirms the city’s place as the preferred Indian home for global aerospace engineering.
At a glance
- Home country: France
- Sector: Aerospace and Aviation
- City: Bengaluru
- Date: March 2026
- Status: Expansion of an existing centre
- Scale: 880,000 sq ft campus built for about 5,000 people
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