India's booming aviation market, with airlines ordering nearly 1,500 new planes, faces delivery delays from primary suppliers Boeing and Airbus. This has reignited discussions about India's ambitions to domestically produce passenger aircraft, highlighted by a recent agreement with Russia to manufacture the SJ-100.

• IndiGo and Air India control over 90% of the Indian market and have placed significant plane orders for the next decade.
• The proposed India-Russia deal involves manufacturing the SJ-100, a twin-engine aircraft capable of carrying up to 103 passengers.
• Past domestic aircraft manufacturing efforts by organizations like National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) have seen limited success and faced numerous hurdles, including lack of demand and a small manufacturing ecosystem.