The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of airplanes, that activity is 30301.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
30301 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of airplanes: a sub-class of class 3030, manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery, within division 30, manufacture of other transport equipment. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 30Group 303Class 3030Sub-class 30301
Manufacture of airplanes
Sub-class 30301 · Class 3030 · Group 303 · Division 30 · Section C, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
303015 digits: 30 + 3 + 0 + 1NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 30301. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 30 covers manufacture of other transport equipment. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery.
Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of airplanes. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
30301 is a sub-class of class 3030, manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of parachutes, see 1322
- - manufacture of military ordinance and ammunition, see 2520
- - manufacture of telecommunication equipment for satellites, see 2630
- - manufacture of aircraft instrumentation and aeronautical instruments, see 2651
- - manufacture of air navigation systems, see 2651
- - manufacture of lighting equipment for aircraft, see 2740
- - manufacture of ignition parts and other electrical parts for internal combustion engines, see 2790
- - manufacture of pistons, piston rings and carburetors, see 2811
- - manufacture of aircraft launching gear, aircraft carrier catapults and related equipment, see 2829
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 30301 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of airplanes, that activity is 30301.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
30301 is for manufacture of airplanes. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 3030. Each has its own page with the official wording.
30302Class 3030 · another sub-class of the same class30304Class 3030 · another sub-class of the same class30305Class 3030 · another sub-class of the same classClass 3030 has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 30301. 3 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Manufacture of airplanes, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 3030, manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery.
Class 3030, manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery, has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 30301, those with a page here are: 30302 (Manufacture of helicopters); 30304 (Manufacture of spacecraft and launch vehicles, satellites, planetary probes, orbital stations, shuttles, intercontinental ballistic (ICBM) and similar missiles); 30305 (Manufacture of parts and accessories of the aircraft and spacecraft of this class (major assemblies such as fuselages, wings, doors, control surfaces, landing gear, fuel tanks, nacelles, airscrews, helicopter rotors and propelled rotor blades, motors and engines of a kind typically found on aircraft, parts of turbojets and turbopropellers for aircraft, aircraft seats etc. and other specialised parts of spacecraft)).
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page, and the explanatory note for class 3030, are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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