India, US signs Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement

19 Jul 2011 Evaluate

India and US signed the bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA) on July 18, during the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to India. The BASA is expected to open huge market for export of aeronautical products manufactured in the US and other regions of the world.

The bilateral agreement will facilitate reciprocal airworthiness certification of civil aeronautical products imported/exported between the two signatory authorities. Indian standards would be comparable to global standards and its aeronautical products would be accepted by the US.

BASA would encourage indigenous aircraft and aeronautical products industry and the US acceptance of Indian products will help their global acceptance. In other words, it would lessen the economic burden imposed on the aviation industry and operators by redundant technical inspections, evaluations and testing.

The BASA agreement which was signed by Nasim Zaidi, Secretary, Civil Aviation and J. Randolph Babbitt, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), will offer huge opportunity to the Indian nascent aircraft manufacturing industry. This agreement between India and US will also encourage investment in the Indian aircraft manufacturing industry, and it is also expected to help fast growing aviation industry in India.

Following this would be the signing of the implementation Procedures for Airworthiness (IPA) which provides for airworthiness technical cooperation between FAA and its counterpart civil aviation authorities. The scope of IPA can be enhanced from time to time. The US has signed BASA with 24 countries.

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