Fighter jets to conduct training on Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Oct 24

For Oct 24 exercise, a stretch of the 302-km long expressway would be closed for traffic during Oct 20-24

Eleven months after Mirage and Sukhoi jets had presented an air show during the inauguration of Agra-Lucknow Expressway, the country’s longest access-controlled greenfield expressway will again play host to the Indian Air Force (IAF) fighters jets on October 24 to conduct their landing and takeoff exercise.

On November 21, six Mirage and Sukhoi jets had presented airshow and conducted their maiden training on its 3.3 km long specially built runway in Unnao district near Kanpur. Then Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and then ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav were present during the air show.

For October 24