NCAA Registers 30 Aircrafts, Issues 115 Air Worthiness Certificates In Six Months

By LOVETH AZODO, Lagos

Giving inventory of its six months activities the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) has registered a total of 30 Aircrafts and issued 115 air worthiness certificates between January and June.

The Director General, NCAA, Captain Usman Muhtar, disclosed this at the 2nd NCAA Interactive Forum with Aviation Agencies’ and Airlines’ Public Relations/Information Managers.

In furtherance, Captain Muhtar gave a break down of the figures, saying that 20 aircrafts were registered for commercial air transport, while another 10 were registered for general operations.

He further said 10 aircrafts were de-registered while another twelve 12 were re-registered within the period in review.

Usman also said that the NCAA between January and June issued 30 certificates of air worthiness while it renewed eighty-five 85 air worthiness certificates.

Speaking On licensing, he said that between January and June, the regulators have also issued 36 pilot licenses, renewed 750 pilot medical and instrument and has changed 23 foreign licenses, issued 242 cabin crew licences as well as renewed 206 cabin crew medical.

Furthermore, He stated that the CAA has issued aircraft maintenance engineering licenses to 68 engineers and has renewed the licenses of 64 Air Traffic Controllers, 34 Flight Dispatchers and has conducted exams for 1, 537 professionals of various categories.

On flight delays and cancellations, in the period under review, the NCAA boss said that there were 16,880 delays in domestic operations and 2,443 for international operations with 253 flights cancelled domestically and 95 internationally.

On missing baggages, he surmised that only 25 were delayed or missing domestically while 17, 893 cases of delayed or missing baggages were reported internationally.

Captain Usman also called for a united approach in information dissemination devoid of disinformation and scaremongering.