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13/04/22 14:47 PM IST

First Made in India Dornier Aircraft Flight

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  • The Minister of Civil Aviation Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia and the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Shri Pema Khandu flagged off the first flight of Made in India HAL Dornier Do-228 in a bid to connect airports and Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) of Northeast India.
About Dornier Aircraft 
  • Manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the 17-seater aircraft will be operated by Alliance Air, and connect Dibrugarh with Pasighat and Lilabari (Assam). 
  • HAL is a Central Public Sector Unit under Ministry of Defence to operate Indian made Dornier aircraft, which is called Hindustan aircraft.
  • This initiative is in line with the vision of Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi “AtmaNirbhar Bharat”. With this, Alliance Air becomes the first commercial airline to fly Indian made aircraft for civil operations.
  • The deployment of Indian made Do-228 will be done in a phased manner.
  • In the first phase, 2 Hindustan aircrafts would be stationed at Dibrugarh, to connect Tezu, Pasighat and Ziro.
  • In the second phase of the program, connectivity to Mechuka, Tuting and Vijoy Nagar has been planned. 
About UDAN 
  • Under “UdeDeshKaAam Nagrik (UDAN)”, the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS), Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has identified NER as a priority area. 
  • This has helped in enhancing inter and intra connectivity for the NER.
  • In this regard, new airports are getting developed and old airports are getting upgraded.
  • 415 routes have been operationalized under the UDAN scheme and over 91 lakh people have benefitted from it. Over 1 lakh 75 thousand flights are flown under this scheme.”

Source-PIB 

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