Indonesia's transportation minister and spatial planning deputy ministers were the first passengers.
Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi and Agrarian and Spatial Planning Deputy Minister Raja Juli Antoni were the first passengers to land at the airport.
“Today we conducted a proving flight with a Cessna Citation Longitude, a jet aircraft with the same classification as a Boeing 737,” Mr Budi said in a statement issued by the Transportation Ministry. “Alhamdulillah , the aircraft we boarded, landed smoothly and safely at Nusantara airport.”Manufactured by United States aircraft maker Cessna, the aircraft has a capacity of up to 12 passengers with a maximum range of 6,482km.
He added that the verification and calibration stages of the Nusantara airport had been completed several days ago. The results met aviation security and safety standards, he said. Mr Budi was upbeat that the airport would be completed as planned on Dec 31. Meanwhile, pilot Win Warsono said the flight was the inaugural flight to Nusantara airport for a jet aircraft of the class C classification.
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