New Delhi: US aviation major Boeing is working out a fresh delivery schedule of the last three Apache attack helicopters for the Indian Army after a similar effort this month was blocked by Türkiye, which sat on permission for them to fly to India through its airspace.

Sources in the defence and security establishment said that on 1 November, a heavy-lift cargo aircraft, Antonov AN-124 (serial number UR-82008), took off from Mesa Gateway Airport, also known as Phoenix–Mesa Airport, in Arizona, carrying the second tranche of three Apache helicopters for the Indian Army.

The Antonov aircraft landed at East Midlands Airport in England, where it had stopped for refuelling. However, it remained on the ground for 8 days and then on 8 November, it flew back to Mesa Gateway Airport rather than

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