November 15 1991 Arrival of the second Boeing 747-400 VT-ESN "Tanjore" in Mumbai. The flight was ferried from Seattle to London via New York and then operated as a scheduled service AI-132 London-Delhi-Mumbai.
quite a few planes and naval stations havebeen named after kings even before that. but before the kings theee was a rani series in constellation aircraft series. rani of jhansi, rhani of bijapur, rani of chitor and rni of madurai( any idea who? rahul)
1980 February 22 Arrival of the tenth Boeing 747-237B (VT-EGB "Mahendra Verman") in Bombay.
in 1985 the first service with Boeing 747 VT EBN "Rajendra Chola" operated on the routing Bombay / Delhi / Frankfurt / Toronto / Montreal.
1988 Second Boeing 747-300 (VT-EPX "Narasimha Varman") arrived in Bombay. The aircraft was ferried from Seattle to New York and then operated as an extra section flight.
1990 Boeing 747-200 (VT-EBE "Shahajehan" ) also a set of planes named after rivers- kishna, narmada etc yes there is one calle cauveri too.
> > Dear All > Interesting you should mention navy > My uncle came for a conference by An Air India and the Flight was called Thanjavur ...Inside apparaently had details of RRC and exploits > Regards > Sri >