{"id":575584,"date":"2023-05-09T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=575584"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:58:25","slug":"iafs-first-c295-completes-maiden-flight-in-spain-induction-begins-in-sept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iafs-first-c295-completes-maiden-flight-in-spain-induction-begins-in-sept\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF\u2019s first C295 completes maiden flight in Spain, induction begins in Sept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force\u2019s first C295 medium transport aircraft has completed its maiden flight in Spain, ahead of its induction into the IAF later this year, European firm Airbus Defence and Space said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis first flight represents a significant accomplishment for the first Make in India aerospace programme. With the IAF set to become the largest operator of the C295 in the world, this programme exemplifies our commitment to improve the IAF\u2019s operational capabilities,\u201d said Jean-Brice Dumont, head of military air systems at Airbus Defence and Space in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The maiden flight took place at Seville on May 5 and lasted three hours. IAF crews are at Airbus\u2019s Seville facility for training, officials familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force\u2019s first C295 medium transport aircraft has completed its maiden flight in Spain, ahead of its induction into the IAF later this year, European firm Airbus Defence and Space said in a statement on Monday. \u201cThis first flight represents a significant accomplishment for the first Make in India aerospace programme. With the IAF set to become the largest operator of the C295 in the world, this programme exemplifies our commitment to improve the IAF\u2019s operational capabilities,\u201d said Jean-Brice Dumont, head of military air systems at Airbus Defence and Space in the statement. The maiden flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}