The first flight training academy in the Northeast was inaugurated at Lilabari airport in Assam’s Lakhimpur district on Tuesday.
Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma formally declared the Redbird Flight Training Academy open.
“This is a historic day for the Northeast. The region is getting its first pilot training academy after 75 years of Independence,” Scindia told reporters after the inauguration.
The Union minister said that another such academy will be set up at Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh.
Sarma, in a series of tweets, said that his government has handed over 84 acres of land for the development of a basic airstrip and the construction of an isolation bay at the academy.
