Asia’s first SBTF commissioned into Indian Navy at Goa Saturday Feb 01,2014

India has joined the elite group of nations when the Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF) was commissioned into the Indian Navy at INS Hansa in Panaji, a Naval official said in Panji on Saturday Feb 01,2014

The SBTF, which was commissioned recently, is primarily used for flight testing of Naval aircraft that operate from aircraft carriers

The SBTF has two parts including the Take-off Area with a ski-jump facility and the Landing Area with arresting wire facility, both of which are a replica of INS Vikramaditya

A MiG-29KUB from INAS 303 "Black Panthers" parked at the Shore-Based Test Facility (SBTF) ski-jump in Goa

This is the third such facility in the world, after the United States and Ukraine.