The Kannur International Airport, in Kannur, Kerala, is quite the marvel. In a state that is recovering from floods, the airport is a silver lining. It even played a part in the rescue missions, before being inaugurated for commercial operations. It still had licences awaiting but proved highly useful.
1. It is not the first commercial aviation airstrip in Kannur. In 1935, TATA airlines operated weekly flights between Bombay and Trivandrum, stopping at Goa and Cannanore! The demand for an airport was only conceptualised much later, in 1997. And since then, it has been a work in progress.
2. The new international airport is hi-tech, and has the latest generation of Instrument Landing System (ILS), from Norway, to help aircraft land precisely, according to The Hindu.
3. The airport required almost 1,200 acres of land on a hilltop at Mookapramabu to be levelled with around 700 acres of acquired land for future expansion. According to Star of Mysore, the ambitious project has been completed at the cost of Rs 1,892 crore.
4. An aviation academy will be set up at the airport, by the Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy and Technology, with two acres of land allotted for it. The institute will train students in aeronautics and provide flight training.
06/09/18 Rayomand Engineer/Better India
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1. It is not the first commercial aviation airstrip in Kannur. In 1935, TATA airlines operated weekly flights between Bombay and Trivandrum, stopping at Goa and Cannanore! The demand for an airport was only conceptualised much later, in 1997. And since then, it has been a work in progress.
2. The new international airport is hi-tech, and has the latest generation of Instrument Landing System (ILS), from Norway, to help aircraft land precisely, according to The Hindu.
3. The airport required almost 1,200 acres of land on a hilltop at Mookapramabu to be levelled with around 700 acres of acquired land for future expansion. According to Star of Mysore, the ambitious project has been completed at the cost of Rs 1,892 crore.
4. An aviation academy will be set up at the airport, by the Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy and Technology, with two acres of land allotted for it. The institute will train students in aeronautics and provide flight training.
06/09/18 Rayomand Engineer/Better India
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