#WATCH | Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari in the cockpit of C-295 transport aircraft at the Seville air base in Spain pic.twitter.com/EI3miKhNlB
— ANI (@ANI) September 13, 2023
Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 09:30am on 13 Sep 2023,Wednesday Defence
The Indian Air Force (IAF) received its first C-295 military aircraft from Airbus in Spain today as part of a deal to procure 56 planes to replace the aging Avro fleet. Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhari received the aircraft being built at the Airbus plant in Seville. The plane is expected to land at the Hindon air base in UP next week and will be officially inducted by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. While 16 aircraft will be ready-to-fly from Airbus, 40 will be manufactured in India by Tata Advanced Systems Limited under the 'Make in India' initiative. The manufacturing facility in Vadodara, spread over 1.2 million sq meters like Airbus' Spanish facility, will be operational by November 2024 with the first India-made plane expected in 2026.
