Port Blair Airport
| Vir Savarkar Airport INS Utkrosh |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | VOPB |
| IATA code | IXZ |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 4 m (13 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | about 2 km south of Port Blair |
| Basic data | |
| operator | Airports Authority of India Indian Navy |
| Start-and runway | |
| 04/22 | 3290 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Vir Savarkar Airport (also Port Blair Airport ) is the civil area of a military airfield of the Indian Navy in Port Blair on South Andaman Iceland .
It serves as a regional airport and is named after Vinayak Damodar Savarkar . The airport is served by several Indian airlines. Goals are u. a. Chennai , Delhi and Mumbai . The airport is the seat of Andaman Airways .
The formerly completely civilian area has been subordinate to the Navy since 1984, who expanded the airfield after the takeover and opened it in 1985 as Indian Naval Station Utkrosh , INS Utkrosh for short . The Navy has a squadron of Do 228-201 patrol aircraft and some helicopters stationed here. In the north of the archipelago there is a second naval airfield with the INS Kohasa as an advanced base.
Web links
- Official site (English)
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ^ Andaman Airways. ch-aviation . Retrieved January 10, 2019.