Make Hirasar airport ready for operations by March: Aviation secretary
The visit came days after the approach lighting system which assists pilots in landing and take-off of aircraft, was installed at the airport to prepare the runway for test flights.
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The building design of the under-construction Rajkot, Hirasar Greenfield Airport is inspired by various Heritage Buildings of the city. (@AAI_Official/Twitter) Union Civil Aviation secretary Rajiv Bansal Sunday visited the under-construction Hirasar airport on the outskirts of Rajkot to review the progress of the work. According to Rajkot district collector Arun Mahesh Babu, the secretary gave necessary instructions to make the airport operations-ready by end of March this year.
“Runway calibration flights will start from mid-February. The temporary terminal will also be in place by around that time and we will make the airport operations-ready by end of March this year,” Babu told The Indian Express. “The construction of a permanent terminal is going on and it will be completed by December this year,” he added.
The visit came days after the approach lighting system which assists pilots in landing and take-off of aircraft, was installed at the airport to prepare the runway for test flights.
“Bansal and Rajkot district collector Arun Mahesh Babu first inspected the runway and then the apron area, under-construction box-culverts, terminal, the temporary terminal developed recently, fire station and the approach road connecting the airport to the highway,” an official release from the Gujarat government said.
Loknath Padhi, general manager (project, civil) of the Airports Authority of India (AAI), briefed the secretary about the progress in the airport project. Later on, Bansal chaired a meeting with AAI officers, the Rajkot district administration and contractors to review the progress of the project.
The Rajkot collector had, on January 10, said that test flights to test the runway would start as soon as the landing lights, a temporary terminal, air traffic control tower and fire station were in place.
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