<P> HAL built the first military aircraft in South Asia . It is currently involved in the design, fabrication and assembly of aircraft, jet engines, helicopters and their spare parts . It has several facilities spread across India . The locations where the manufacturing plants are operated by HAL include Nasik, Korwa, Kanpur, Koraput, Lucknow, Bangalore and Hyderabad . The German engineer Kurt Tank designed the HF - 24 Marut fighter - bomber, the first fighter aircraft made in India . </P> <P> Hindustan Aeronautics has a long history of collaboration with several other international and domestic aerospace agencies such as Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Sukhoi Aviation Corporation, Elbit Systems, Israel Aircraft Industries, RSK MiG, BAE Systems, Rolls - Royce plc, Dassault Aviation, MBDA, EADS, Tupolev, Ilyushin Design Bureau, Dornier Flugzeugwerke, the Indian Aeronautical Development Agency and the Indian Space Research Organisation . </P> <P> HAL was established as Hindustan Aircraft in Bangalore in 1940 on 23 December 1940 . Hindustan Aircraft Company was incorporated under the Mysore Companies Act as a private Ltd Company . Walchand--Tulsidas - Khatau Ltd was the Managing agency . Its first directors were: Walchand Hirachand, Chairman, Tulsidas Khilachand, Dharmsey Mularaj Khatau, A.N. Raghavachar (Mysore State representative), Venkatanaranappa (Mysore State representative). Company's office was opened at a bungalow called "Eventide" on Domlur Road. The initiative was actively encouraged by the Kingdom of Mysore, especially by its Young Maharaja, H.H. Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar and the Diwan, Sir Mirza Ismail . Walchand had first approached share holders of his own company, The Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd, for diversifying but was refused . He then wrote to the Rulers of Baroda, Gwalior and Bhavanagar without success . Only Maharaja of Mysore responded favourably by agreeing to invest 25 lakhs and gave initial 700 acres of land free . </P> <P> The organisation and equipment for the factory at Bangalore was set up by William D. Pawley of the Intercontinental Aircraft Corporation of New York, who had already established Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO) in partnership with Chinese Nationalist government . Pawley obtained a large number of machine - tools and equipment from the United States . </P>

Which industrialist set up hindustan aircraft limited in association with the state of mysore