India eases rules for getting new type of aircraft
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India eases rules for getting new type of aircraft
Saurabh Sinha / TNN / Jan 21, 2021, 23:24 IST
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15-seater DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft of Maldivian Aero used on Ahmedabad Sabarmati riverfront-Statue of Unity in Kevadia route (File photo: Maldivian Aero)
NEW DELHI: India has simplified the process of getting new types of aircraft as it opens its skies to flying machines not seen here commonly earlier like seaplanes and four-seater planes.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has removed the requirement of giving type acceptance of aircraft for short term wet leasing (hiring with operating crew) of aircraft in a bid to improve the ease of doing business in this crippled by Covid sector.
Govt plans seaplane service on Delhi s Yamuna riverfront
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This story is from January 2, 2021
Govt plans seaplane service on Delhi s Yamuna riverfront
Saurabh Sinha / TNN / Updated: Jan 2, 2021, 12:20 IST
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At the moment, there is only one seaplane service operational in India between Ahmedabad s Sabarmati riverfront and the Statue of Unity in Kevadia that as inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel. (File photo)
NEW DELHI: You could soon be boarding a seaplane from the Yamuna riverfront to Ayodhya or from Mumbai to Shirdi for a pilgrimage, if the government has its way. The shipping and waterways ministry has issued an expression of interest (EoI) for the Sagarmala Seaplane Service (SSPS) for having this service to connect several places like Delhi’s Yamuna riverfront and Ayodhya, Tehri, Srinagar (Uttarakhand) and Chandigarh; Mumbai to Shirdi, Lonavala and Ganpatipule; Surat to Dwarka, M
Seaplane services to resume from Dec 28 with new ‘decade-old’ aircraft
SpiceJet officials said the aircraft being brought in will be newer and “about a decade-old”. The bookings for the Ahmedabad-Kevadia seaplane route have commenced from December 28, they added. December 24, 2020 3:22:35 am
PM Narendra Modi had taken a seaplane flight from Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad to Dharoi in December 2017, ahead of the Gujarat assembly polls that year. (Representational)
A month after the Twin Otter 300 seaplane flew back to its home country in the Maldives for a ‘scheduled maintenance’, a new aircraft is set to reach India to resume the seaplane service connecting Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad and the Statue of Unity at Kevadia in Narmada district by December 27, the Gujarat State Aviation Infrastructure Company Limited (GUJSAIL) said Wednesday. The seaplane operations, which have been suspended since November 28, will resume on D