The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has expressed satisfaction with the progress of ongoing infrastructural development projects at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base Kainji, Niger State, which are being emplaced to accommodate the 12 x A-29 Super Tucano aircraft when they arrive Nigeria as well as the NAF personnel that would operate and maintain them.
The CAS equally applauded the appreciable level of work on the in-country Periodic Depot Maintenance (PDM) on 2 Alpha Jet aircraft, NAF 465 and NAF 471, as well as engine recovery efforts being undertaken by the 407 Air Combat Training Group (407 ACTG) Kainji. Air Marshal Abubakar made this known yesterday, 3rd November 2020, while on an operational visit to Kainji NAF Base, where he inspected the ongoing construction of 3 blocks of 10 single-bedroom Single Officersโ Quarters (SOQ), one block of 6 x three-bedroom Married Officersโ Quarters (MOQ) as well as a block of 30 x single-bedroom Transit Accommodation for Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs).
