Sea-Plane’s trial at Kindsi in second week of November


Seaplane at Air India MRO at Nagpur along with the officials, Chhotu Borikar and others.


By Vikas Vaidya


Three months ago Union Minister Nitin Gadkari had announced that Seaplane would take off from Ambajhari lake soon. This was first reported by The Hitavada. Now Gadkari while talking to The Hitavada said that the trial of ambitious seaplane would be held in the month of November. It is his dream project.
The Kodiak seaplane designed by Quest Aircraft company of USA had been to Nagpur eight days ago. It had landed at Air India’s MRO unit. The officers of the company had brought this 8-seater plane to Nagpur. Former Mayor of Nagpur Praveen Datke, General Secretary of BJP South-West Unit Chhotu Borikar and Vivek Dhakras were present. The trio had a look of the plane from inside.
The project will be an outcome of collaboration of SpiceJet with Kodiak. It can fly using the fuel which is half the quantity that required for Mercedes Benz to run almost the same distance. Chhotu Borikar told The Hitavada that company officials told him that the aircraft would require only 50 meters of space to take off.
Nobody is sure about its route. Initially Gadkari had announced that it would take off from Ambajhari lake and would reach Shirdi. Afterwards it was announced that the plane would go to both the places—Shirdi as well as Shegaon. According to sources close to Gadkari, he wants to run it from Gandhisagar lake, which seems possible as it requires less space for taking off.
Shirdi has been the center of attraction for many pilgrims across the nation. This holy shrine of ‘Sai Baba’ is located in the district of Ahmednagar and is around 500 kilometers away from Nagpur. Seaplane journey will reduce that time. It will go to Shirdi via Anand Sagar Lake in Shegaon.              
The reason, seaplane stops at Shegaon is for those people who after visiting Shirdi also visit ‘Gajanan Maharaj Samadhi Mandir’ in Shegaon which is another pilgrim spot. Both this holy places are being visited by thousands and hundreds of people every day. For a pilgrim from Nagpur traveling through bus or train, it takes ten hours of travel time.
In the month of August, a meeting was addressed by Gadkari and attended by Atul Patne, Chief Executive Officer of Maharashtra Maritime Board, Dr Deepak Mhaisekar, NIT Chairman; Vijay Waghmare, Director General Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) held. The meeting had discussed about the seaplane journey.

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