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India To Recieve Its First Airbus C-295 Transport, IAF Chief Visits Spain To Recieve Airframe
Credit: Zee News- Published on September 11, 2023
India is ready to receive its first-ever Airbus C295 aircraft from Spain, which is one of the 16 airframes that the manufacturer will supply to the country.
Video credit: Oneindia
Published on September 14, 2023 - 03:01
C-295 Aircraft: IAF gets first of 56 C-295 military aircrafts from Airbus in Spain I Oneindia News
Yesterday, the Indian Air Force received its first C295 transport aircraft with the officials of the Airbus Defence and Space handing over the plane to Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari in Spain. The new aircraft, which will be flown to India by a joint IAF-Airbus crew, will be inducted in the service on September 25 at Hindon Air Force station near Delhi. THE C295 FLEET WILL REPLACE THE IAF’S AGEING AVRO AIRCRAFT. The IAF is scheduled to get its second aircraft in May 2024 while the next 14 will be rolled out at a rate of one per month until August 2025. This is the first of the 56 aircraft that India purchased from Airbus in a nearly Rs 22,000 crore contract that the Defence Ministry signed with the aviation major in September 2021.
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