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Chennai Sholavaram Airstrip
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- The Indian Air Force (IAF) is setting up its first East Coast Air surveillance base at the unused World War 2 era Sholavaram airstrip.
- If operational, this air surveillance base at Sholavaram will help the forces to secure the 2,500-kilometre coastline covering Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
- IAF is planning to station few attack helicopters here. This would bolster INS Rajali, the Indian Naval Station at Arakkonam, which carries out surveillance through Boeing P8I.
- In Sholavaram, a small airstrip is to be developed under the Regional Connectivity Scheme (UDAN) of the Union Civil Aviation Ministry.
- Sholavaram air strip was created by the British during World War II.
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