{"id":59420,"date":"2025-01-11T22:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T22:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59420"},"modified":"2025-01-11T22:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T22:10:15","slug":"ekiti-cargo-airport-nears-takeoff-as-first-test-flight-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/11\/ekiti-cargo-airport-nears-takeoff-as-first-test-flight-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekiti Cargo Airport Nears Takeoff as First Test Flight Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something big is about to happen in Ekiti as its long-anticipated Agro-Allied International Cargo Airport is on the brink of full operations.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a Beechcraft 350i aircraft touched down on its runway, signaling a crucial milestone in its journey to commercial flights.<\/p>\n<p>Barely a month after receiving approval for non-scheduled flight operations from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the airport underwent a critical test as Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), officials conducted a working flight operation.<\/p>\n<p>According to AVM Sunday Makinde (retd.), Technical Adviser to the Ekiti State Governor on the Airport Project, the aircraft was a calibration plane assessing the airport\u2019s navigational aids, communication systems, and control tower frequencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fully ready. Just a few finishing touches remain before commercial aviation begins,\u201d Makinde assured.<\/p>\n<p>State Commissioner for Information, Taiwo Olatunbosun, reinforced the optimism, revealing that the airport had secured all necessary federal regulatory approvals.<\/p>\n<p>He hinted that airline traffic would soon become a regular sight, emphasizing that the airport\u2019s world-class runway positions Ekiti as a hub for industrialization and economic transformation.<\/p>\n<p>With the stage set and all systems checked, Ekiti\u2019s cargo airport is poised to take flight\u2014ushering in a new era of growth and opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 Something big is about to happen in Ekiti as its long-anticipated Agro-Allied International Cargo Airport is on the brink of full operations. On Friday, a Beechcraft 350i aircraft touched down on its runway, signaling a crucial milestone in its journey to commercial flights. Barely a month after receiving approval for non-scheduled flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59422,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420\/revisions\/59422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}