{"id":9534,"date":"2018-06-04T14:36:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9534"},"modified":"2018-06-04T14:36:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:36:45","slug":"reactivation-of-immigration-aircraft-by-air-force-reached-advanced-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9534","title":{"rendered":"\u200bReactivation of Immigration aircraft by Air Force reaches advanced stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">By <strong>Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya<\/strong>, \u00a0Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The ongoing reactivation of the Do-228 aircraft recently handed over to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has reached an advanced stage.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The extent of work was witnessed by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, during on-the-site inspection visits to some units in Kaduna on <a href=\"calendar:T2:4 June 2018\">4 June 2018<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The CAS also inspected the ongoing construction of headquarters complex for the Air Training Command Kaduna. He was pleased to observe that work was progressing as scheduled.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile, the airframe of one of the three aircrafts received from the NIS had been heavily corroded before it was handed over and therefore Beyond Economic Repairs.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Furthermore, preliminary inspections have been conducted on the remaining two aircrafts by NAF engineers and technicians at 431 Engineering Group, NAF Base Kaduna. One of the two repairable Do-238 aircraft that was at Kaduna Civil Airport has already been ferried to the Kaduna military airfield following initial maintenance activities by the NAF maintenance crew.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In addition, the faded paintings on both aircraft have been replaced with military paint schemes to minimize corrosion and in preparation for subsequent deployment to operational theaters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The NAF is now awaiting the delivery of the required Time Change Items and other aircraft spares to enable the conduct of mandatory outstanding scheduled inspections on both aircraft.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Apart from its usefulness as a light liaison transport aircraft, the Do-228 could be employed for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance missions in the counterinsurgency and other operations in the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Consequently, by the time the reactivation is completed, the operational effectiveness of the NAF would be further boosted and the hitherto grounded aircraft prevented from total decay.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, \u00a0Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force The ongoing reactivation of the Do-228 aircraft recently handed over to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has reached an advanced stage. The extent of work was witnessed by the Chief of the Air Staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}