AS a part of ‘Navy Day 2016’ celebrations, Air Display for differently abled children and school children is being organized from 15-17 November 2015 at Naval Air Station, INS Shikra. On 16 and 17 November School Children were invited to witness the air display. This morning too a large number of children witnessed a thrilling display which included helicopter operations at hover, low level manoeuvres, take off and landings. A static display of Chetak, Seaking 42B and Kamov 31 helicopters was also utilised by the pilots or maintainers, to explain role and capability of each helicopter to the children.
The visit gives an exposure to the students about functioning of the air station and they utilized the opportunity to understand and appreciate the services being rendered by the Air Arm of the Indian Navy. This thrilling and motivating exposure to the helicopters and insight of the naval life would indeed leave an imprint on both hearts and minds of the visiting children. Yesterday, 15 November 2016, approximately 450 differently abled children had visited the air station as a part of the ongoing function.
INS Shikra, located at Colaba provides basing facilities and operational support to Naval and Coast Guard helicopters, including ship borne flights of Western Fleet during disembarked period. Many urgent search and rescue operations at sea in and around Mumbai are launched from this air station.
The Indian Navy observes December 4 as Navy day to commemorate the successful missile attack on Karachi during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 and to salute its valiant heroes