Nigeria Gets $8.5m Calibration Aircraft

The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Thursday, disclosed that the federal government has taken delivery of a calibration aircraft worth $8.5m.

In a post on his Twitter page, the minister stated that the aircraft will serve in the calibration of navigational aids across Nigerian airports.

Sirika wrote: “Just received new calibration aircraft for the country. (The) make is King Air 350i. Cost is $8.5m.

“The agony of contracting it to South Africa at about $500,000 every six months is over. Our airspace is safer. Thanks, Mr President, we started and finished during your regime.”

“The purpose of this aircraft is to calibrate our equipment and aids in the country for the purpose of flight operations. We used to have one in Nigeria but for the last two decades, we never had one.”

Sirika said what informed the government to procure the aircraft was that when it was reconstructing the Abuja airport runway, there was the need recalibrate all the landing aids at the time, which was actually the requirement.