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Naval Aircraft Yard (NAY), Kochi, is celebrating the golden jubilee of its service to the Naval Aviation on February 4.
The celebrations include a national seminar on ‘Innovative Approaches to Sustenance of Naval Aviation Maintenance Infrastructure in the Coming Decades'. Papers will be presented at the seminar on aviation maintenance philosophy and allied subjects. A large number of serving and retired Navy officials are expected to join in the celebrations at Kochi.
NAY, Kochi, started in 1956, when a small fleet repair unit was set up at Kochi by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore, to repair and maintain Navy aircraft. The Indian Navy took over the responsibility of this facility on February 5, 1960, and commissioned it as a Naval Aircraft Repair Organisation (NARO).
The NARO over the years grew, along with the growth of the Indian Navy, to a full-fledged industrial establishment with the state-of-the-art facilities for repair of aircraft, engines, avionics and their components. In the late nineties, contemporary facilities such as engine repair and overhaul facility, centre for avionics repairs and software development, structural repair facility and many other workshops for component repairs of aircraft were set up.
NAY, Kochi, has many achievements such as refurbishment of Alize aircraft, modifications to Chetak helicopters for the first-ever aero-magnetic survey of Antarctica in 1987, conversion of Islander aircraft from piston engine to turbine engine in 1996 and suitable modification to Seaking helicopters to overcome sanctions after the Pokhran nuclear tests.
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