{"id":304,"date":"2007-09-23T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=304"},"modified":"2007-09-23T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T10:15:00","slug":"behala-flying-club-to-get-new-lease-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/09\/behala-flying-club-to-get-new-lease-of-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Behala Flying Club to get new lease of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Kolkata<\/span>: The Behala Flying Club will get a fresh lease of life after a decade and half when Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel lays the foundation for an airport there on Sunday.<br \/>The airport on the southern fringe of Kolkata will develop into a modern facility for regional flights within a year and also train pilots, S P S Bakshi, Regional Executive Director (East) of the Airports Authority of India said.<br \/>An agreement has been signed between Behala Flying Club and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camelliaaviation.org\/\">Camelia Flying Training Institute<\/a>, which has taken it over with an investment of about Rs 35 crore to train pilots.<br \/>The AAI has sanctioned Rs 10 crore for upgrading the runway, installing ground lights and building a boundary wall, Bakshi said.<br \/>The air traffic control tower has been equipped with a VHF set to provide navigational support, while steps are being taken to strengthen the runway.<br \/>Tenders have been floated by the AAI for installing approach lights on either side of the 3,500-foot runway and to build a boundary wall to facilitate operations by ATR aircraft. The work is in progress, Bakshi said.<br \/>In the second phase of the project, the runway will be extended to 4,500 feet and a passenger terminal building will be built the West Bengal government allots land and develops infrastructure for easy access to the airport.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">22\/09\/07 PTI\/Economic Times<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: The Behala Flying Club will get a fresh lease of life after a decade and half when Civil Aviation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}