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Mumbai Man Cleared To Fly Homemade Aircraft, Names It …

MUMBAI: Amol Yadav may be just one man but he has managed to do what many of India’s larger enterprises haven’t been able to. The journey wasn’t easy but at the end of a six-year endeavor that included selling his home and a daunting fight against red tape, Mr. Yadav’s dreams have taken wings – only the flight is left. The aircraft enthusiast has not only managed to build a working plane by himself, he has also managed to move the clunky bureaucracy into granting him a license to fly it.

“The DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) has provided a registration certificate to pilot Amol Yadav,” a statement from Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ office said on Monday. It was on the Chief Minister’s request that PM Narendra Modi’s himself intervened to ensure that Mr. Yadav could finally stop going around in circles with the aviation regulator.

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