Bangladesh Civil Aviation as was in 2000 AD

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Syed Mohd. Saleh Uddin

Aviation History

 

Bangladesh Civil Aviation as was in 2000 AD

SYED MOHD. SALEH UDDIN

(From navigationtalk.wordpress.com for further dissemination, assisted by Hamza)

 

From the year 1996 CAAB started issuing operating licenses to private airliners. Even Bangladesh Biman may also go under the private ownership very soon. Besides, Plant protection Department of Bangladesh Government having few aircraft for pesticide spraying. Air wing of this department was also having glorious past. This organization  is established during Pakistan period in 1956 in the old airport of Tejgaon – Dhaka. At that time it had DHC –2 (Beaver), & piper. Its Engineering students were trained in the School of Aeronautics & School of Electronics of the Pakistan Air Force situated at Korangi Creek in Karachi. After the independence it is working as the Aviation Wing of Agricultural Department of Bangladesh Government. In 1973 by the aid of New Zealand Government it established A Flying training Project (Scheme) for its Pilots training. For this purpose Norman Clark Government of New Zealand presented three Air Tourer training aircrafts to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Government of the Bangladesh. After the project of flying training is over these aircrafts were used for the training of BAF pilots.  These were good training aircrafts but after two fatal crush in 1976 BAF did not collect same type of aircrafts later on. In those crush AVM Khademul Bashar and wing Commander Hamidur Rahman with  two other Co- Pilots died. In 1982 Plant Protection Department got five Fletcher-24-950 from New Zealand.For certain technical problems those aircrafts were also disposed off. Now (2000AD) this organization have three Cresco-8-600 built in New Zealand and two DHC-2(Beaver). Once this organization was very active one but now is much ignored one. Its aircrafts are lying in the Plant Protection Aviation Workshop. Being an agricultural country this wing must be properly maintained.

Present (2000 AD) state of Civil Aviation (Private only) is shown in the chart given in the next entry.

About Syed Mohd. Saleh Uddin

I am from Bangladesh (East Pakistan before 1971). I joined the PAF in 13 February, 1969 then served in the BAF and Bangladesh Army (AEC) and retired (as SWO) from the Bangladesh Army in December, 1986. Then I joined in a college as a Lecturer and lastly retired from the Rampura Ekramunnessa Degree College situated in Dhaka, Bangladesh in July 2012 as an Assistant Professor. During this long period, time to time I worked in the Dhaka University, National University, Bangladesh Open University, BISE and BTEB as an examiner or scrutinizer etc. I also served in the CATECH, HICAM, NIET etc institutes in different teaching capacities and now working in a literary project of Dr. Shah A. Rahim (Associate professor, BOU) as a translator of literary works and a free lancer for the world media viewers. I have few publications of various interests in Bangladesh.
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