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dated June 13, 1953: Indian Manufacture of Planes

Mr. L. C. Jain, Director General of Civil Aviation, in Britain to attend conferences of Commonwealth Air Transport, and of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, said that India could in the foreseeable future build passenger and freight planes of her own. ``Obviously we cannot do this immediately. We have one factory producing a light plane. But in ten or twenty years, there seems no reason why we should not make our own aircraft". Meanwhile India signed an agreement for delivery in 1957 of two Comet III jet airliners with the possibility of more orders to follow. Mr. Jain said there was no question of politics interfering in India's nationalized airways. The air corporations to be set up were bound by charters to operate on business principles. Government would provide only overall supervision.

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