Sonegaon airport
| Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Airports Authority of India | ||||||||||||||
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| Serves | Nagpur | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Sonegaon, Maharashtra, India 440005 | ||||||||||||||
| Focus city for | IndiGo | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 315 m / 1,033 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 21°05′32″N 79°02′50″E / 21.09222°N 79.04722°ECoordinates: 21°05′32″N 79°02′50″E / 21.09222°N 79.04722°E | ||||||||||||||
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| Passenger movements | 1,818,149 |
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| Aircraft movements | 15,678 |
| Cargo tonnage | 6,853 |
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport (IATA: NAG, ICAO: VANP) is an international airport serving the city of Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. In 2005, it was named after B. R. Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. The airport handles around 4,000 passengers per day and caters to four domestic airlines and two international airlines connecting Nagpur to Sharjah, Doha and 12 domestic destinations. The airport spread over 1,460-acres is also home to AFS Nagpur of the Indian Air Force. Growth in passenger traffic is fueled by passengers traveling to and from the state capital Mumbai, over 700 km (378 nmi) away.
The airport was commissioned during the First World War in 1917-18 for the RFC/RAF. The old buildings were renovated during the Second World War, when it was used as a staging airfield by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was transferred to the Indian Government when the British left. Due to brisk traffic, new terminal buildings featuring facilities of refreshment, retiring rooms, restrooms, book stalls and visitor's galleries were constructed in 1953.
Sonegaon airport was the hub of the unique "Night Air Mail Service" wherein four planes left from Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras every night with a mail load from their region and returned to their home base in the early morning, after exchanging the mail at Nagpur. The service was operated from January 1949 until October 1973. Over the years its major traffic was civilian aircraft till the formation of 44 Wing and the transfer of the Il-76 military transport aircraft of the IAF in 2003.
It is slated to be the Multimodal International Hub Airport and development work started in 2005. The plan involves construction of a second runway, a new terminal building and a cargo complex through a build-operate-transfer basis. The Maharashtra government offered 400 hectares of land to the Indian Air Force (IAF) in exchange of 278 hectares of land occupied by Air Force Station, Nagpur.
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