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Chennai Aero Park

proposed aerospace industrial park in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ5091420 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chennai Aero Park is an aerospace industrial park in Chennai, India. The proposal is supported by the Confederation of Indian Industry, and it is estimated that the park will take up 250 acres (1.0 km2) of land. The Park would attract global players and engage in the design, manufacture and maintenance of all types of aircraft for both civil and military programmes, including training and education.

With the objective of creating an integrated ecosystem for Aerospace Industry development covering design, engineering, manufacturing, servicing and maintenance of aircraft for civil and defence sector in Tamil Nadu, TIDCO is establishing an Aerospace components’ manufacturing park for aerospace industry in Sriperumbudhur (Chennai) in an area of around 250 acres( expandable to 700 acres). The developed plots in sizes of 1 acre, 2 acres, 5 acres, 10 acres, etc in the park will be offered to the aerospace companies. This park will have the following facilities.

1. Metal/composite manufacturing facilities

2. Technology and IT services

3. Avionics

4.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chennai Aero Park” as proposed aerospace industrial park in India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 164-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chennai, Aero and Park can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as proposed aerospace industrial park in India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5091420. Authority coordinates are 13.053, 80.250. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chennai Aero Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.