KIEV, Feb. 17 – Zaporizhia-based OJSC Motor-Sich is interested in the organization of facilities for servicing and producing its plane and helicopter engines in India.

The Industry Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday that during the AeroIndia-2009 international aviation exhibition held in Bangalore (India), the leadership of Motor-Sich submitted proposals to the Indian Defense Ministry on a number of joint projects on designing and producing aircraft engines and the creation of join aircraft repair plants.

Earlier, the board chairman of OJSC Motor-Sich, Vyacheslav Bohuslayev, said that the company is considering participating in a Russian-Indian program to create a new multifunctional transport aircraft with a carrying capacity of 18-20 tons.