A career spent making the impossible routine.
"No runway? No problem." It was never just a book title. It was a way of working.
Prof. Sanjay Kumar has spent 38+ years at the leading edge of Indian mobility. He began in the automobile industry in 1988, then gave nearly three decades to civil aviation at Pawan Hans Ltd. under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, rising to Executive Director and holding charge as Officiating Chairman & Managing Director as assigned.
He pioneered India's first integrated heliport at Rohini, launched the country's first seaplane services in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, and built helicopter pilgrimage connectivity to Kedarnath, Vaishno Devi and Amarnath Ji, carrying lakhs of devotees to shrines the road could never reach. He led heliport development across Uttarakhand, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and other states, much of it under the UDAN regional connectivity scheme, and drove a turnkey fleet build-up that now totals 34 helicopters. Widely known in the industry as the "Helicopter Man of India."
Today, in his academic second innings, he is Professor & Chair Head of Aviation Management at Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, teaching Aviation Management, Airport Management, Digital Marketing, Marketing Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Managers. He is the author of four published books, a named inventor on two published patents, and Co-Founder of AviatelQ Tech LLP, an aviation-technology startup and MSME.
