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Special Aircraft flying Narendra Modi to be under IAF from 2020

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Air India Engineering Services Limited (AIESL), which is a subsidiary of Air India, will take care of the maintenance of the aircraft, a senior official told PTI.

The missile defence systems will make PM Modi’s aircraft as secure as the Boeing 747-200B used by US President Donald Trump. These two Boeing 777-300ER aircraft are being designed at Boeing’s Dallas facility and will arrive in India in June 2020. They will have the call sign ‘Air India One’.

These two aircraft will be specifically used for three dignitaries – the President, Vice President and Prime Minister. At present Prime Minister, President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu fly on Air India’s B747 planes. In February, the US agreed to sell the two defence systems to India at a cost of $190 million.