Members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Air Corps have concluded a specialist training programme in the operation and maintenance of its Chinese Y-12 aircraft, which is expected to boost the unit’s previously-hampered operational capacity.
Prior to the training programme conducted by the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC), GDF Air Corps Commanding Officer Lieutenant Cargill Kyte said at the closing ceremony, the unit suffered a “deficiency” in the operation and maintenance of the Twin Panda HARBIN Y-12 aircraft. The situation also impacted on the service delivery ability of the unit to the GDF and local communities. “That deficiency will be significantly diminished from today, with the graduation of the pilots, engineers and technicians who have successfully completed this programme,” Kyte was quoted as saying in a GDF statement last Friday.
According to the statement, five pilots and 23 engineers and technicians from the
