{"id":603454,"date":"2023-09-14T10:10:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T04:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=603454"},"modified":"2023-09-14T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T05:24:49","slug":"airbus-hands-over-first-c-295-aircraft-to-iaf-at-ceremony-in-spains-seville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-hands-over-first-c-295-aircraft-to-iaf-at-ceremony-in-spains-seville\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus hands over first C-295 aircraft to IAF at ceremony in Spain&#8217;s Seville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force on Wednesday 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s ageing Avro aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a momentous day for us, for the IAF in particular, and a nation as a whole to receive the first aircraft which marks the beginning of a new era, wherein we will be manufacturing 40 of these aircraft in India,&#8221; Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Air Force on Wednesday 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\u2019s ageing Avro aircraft. &#8220;It is a momentous day for us, for the IAF in particular, and a nation as a whole to receive the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603454","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}