Northeast India’s first Flying Training academy inaugurated in Assam’s Lilabari

Apr 12, 2022

Lilabari (Assam), Apr 12, 2022, (ANI): Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated Northeast India’s first ever Flying Training academy in Assam’s Lilabari. The flying academy has been developed by Redbird Flight Training Academy in collaboration with the Airports Authority of India. The academy has been established in line with the government’s announcement of developing nine new academies in addition to the existing 34 academies. And while this is the first academy in the northeast region, another academy will be brought about in the next phase of the flying academies' development. The Hangar and the taxiway at the Lilabari academy were completed jointly by the Redbird Flight Training Academy and the Airports Authority of India in a record time of less than ten months. In order to encourage the endeavour in Assam, the Airports Authority of India has also waived the 13% royalty it would charge for such organisations. Officials of the training academy say the school has brought a lot of enthusiasm for the people of the North Eastern part of India towards aviation. One of the officials shared how the academy was planning to go about in future in order to train flying aspirants in the region. The Airports Authority of India has been consistently expanding its footprint across the country. Its multifold and multidimensional growth in the past few years has not only equipped the country with the state of the art infrastructure but is also developing human resources in a manner that India will find itself amongst the top in coming years.