Surat Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Airports Authority of India | ||||||||||
| Serves | Surat | ||||||||||
| Location | Surat, Gujarat, India | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 16 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 21°7′3.57″N 72°44′42.93″E / 21.1176583°N 72.7452583°ECoordinates: 21°7′3.57″N 72°44′42.93″E / 21.1176583°N 72.7452583°E | ||||||||||
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Surat Airport (IATA: STV, ICAO: VASU) is a domestic airport located in Magdalla, 11 kilometres (7 mi) southwest of Surat in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The airport, with a total area of 770 acres (312 ha), currently caters to scheduled airline services as well as private aircraft and is also home to a flying training school.
Surat Airport was built by the state government of Gujarat. During the 1990s, Vayudoot and Gujarat Airways flew to Surat Airport but both discontinued their flights in May 1994 and January 2000, respectively. The airport, with a 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) airstrip and an adjoining 60 by 40 metres (200 ft × 130 ft) apron was then transferred to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) in 2003, who began to modernise the airport. After a failed initial attempt in July 2004 to connect Surat with Mumbai and Bhavnagar due to poor airport infrastructure, the now defunct airline Air Deccan operated an ATR 42 aircraft daily from November 2004 to July 2005.
Surat remained the only city in the world with a population of over 4.6 million people without a functioning airport until commercial services resumed on 6 May 2007 with an Indian Airlines Airbus A319 flight to Delhi flagged off by Indian Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel at 12:40 IST. By this time, major improvements had been made to the airport.
Surat airport's new terminal building is capable of handling 240 passengers per hour. With the installation of 2 aerobridges in December 2015, it has now increased to 1500 pax/hour . The adjoining concrete apron measures 235 by 90 metres, and is linked by two taxiways to its sole runway that is oriented 04/22, is 2250 metres long and 45 metres wide which is going to be extended to 2905 metres till 2017. The airfield is equipped with night landing facilities and an Instrument Landing System (ILS) as well as navigational facilities like DVOR/DME and an NDB. The new airport is accessible through Gaurav Path, a newly developed express-road at Piplod. City buses operate between the airport and city center.
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