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Ratan Tata's Falcon 2000 lands in Salem during a Tata Sons board week
The flight from Yavatmal follows a board meeting in Mumbai that weighed Air India losses and a potential Tata Sons listing.
By celebplanes · 1 min read · Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata’s Dassault Falcon 2000, VT-TAT, flew from Yavatmal to Salem on 27 May 2026, a 1h 7m hop that touched down just after 11:47 local time. Yavatmal is a small city in Maharashtra with no significant Tata industrial presence, making the outbound origin somewhat unusual for a jet typically operated between Mumbai, Coimbatore, and Ranchi.
The same week, as reported by The Financial Express, the Tata Sons board met in Mumbai to decide on the fate of the holding company’s listing and the future of loss-making ventures including Air India, which lost nearly $3 billion in FY26. Noel Tata and chairman N Chandrasekaran were in the room. The congregation of the group’s top leadership suggests the Salem visit may be tied to regional business reviews or trustee meetings connected to Tata Trusts.
Recent flight history shows this aircraft has been shuttling steadily between Ranchi, Coimbatore, and Salem since late February, with no overseas trips — a pattern consistent with internal group travel rather than high-profile deal-making. The quiet tempo fits the late chairman’s legacy: a man who flew his own Falcon 2000 not for spectacle, but for the work of a sprawling conglomerate.
Aboard the Dassault Falcon 2000
The aircraft
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