Custom-made B777 plane for VVIP travel arrives India : Air India One

Custom-made B777 plane for VVIP travel arrives India : Air India One : India on Thursday (October 1, 2020) received its much awaited new generation of VVIP aircrafts at the Delhi International Airport from Boeing’s facility in the US. The VVIP Boeing 777-300 ER duo will be used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on their official tours to countries abroad

Custom-made B777 plane for VVIP travel arrives in India

Indian Air Force One (if AI is privatised) aircraft will be equipped with “large aircraft infrared countermeasures (LAIRCM) self-protection suites (SPS) for an estimated cost of $190 million”. The US State Department has approved the ‘foreign military sale’ of two B777 LAIRCM SPS.

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Boeing had delivered the two B777 300 extended range (ER) to Air India in January 2018. The airline sent these two to Fort Worth in Dallas last summer for being retrofitted with the latest security and communication systems so that they can replace the over 26-year-old jumbo jets used by the president, VP and PM for long international flights. The two are with Boeing Defence for retrofitting with the latest security and communication systems. The two planes were expected to be in India by July 2020. Due to technological issues, the delivery date was deferred by more than a month. First of these aircrafts arrived in New Delhi on 1 October 2020

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