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‘India One’ to carry PM to NMIA for Oct 8 opening
The Free Press Journal - Mumbai
|October 03, 2025
The VVIP aircraft made a quick visit to the NMIA on Wednesday to perform an operational drill; this is first instance of a wide-body plane touching down at new airport
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will land at the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) on October 8 with the majestic ‘India One’ aircraft to inaugurate the airport.
The VVIP aircraft also made a quick visit to NMIA on Wednesday to perform an operational drill. This became the first instance of a wide-body aircraft arriving at the NMIA, after IndiGo’s test flight in December with a narrow-body Airbus A320.
‘India One’, the multi-billion aircraft with the call sign ‘Air India One, is one of the two custom-made VVIP Boeing-777 aircraft to transport the Indian PM, President and the Vice President.
This story is from the October 03, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal - Mumbai.
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