Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Airport Authority of India | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Gwalior | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Maharajpura, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1940[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | Indian Standard Time (+5:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 617 ft / 188 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°17′36″N 078°13′40″E / 26.29333°N 78.22778°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | Gwalior Airport | ||||||||||||||
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Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Terminal (IATA: GWL, ICAO: VIGR), also known as Gwalior Airport, is a domestic airport manage and operated by Airport Authority of India serving the city of Gwalior,[5] Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located in Maharajpura, 10 km (6 mi) north-east of Gwalior. It is one of the five major airports in Madhya Pradesh. The airport is named after Vijaya Raje Scindia, one of the founding members of Bhartiya Janta Party, former prominent Member of Parliament and Maharani of Gwalior belonging to the Scindia dynasty of the Maratha Empire. It is the oldest and largest airport of Madhya Pradesh in terms of size and only airport in Central India which has two runways.
The airport is spread over 760.7 acres (307.8 hectares). The terminal building is spread over 20,000 m2 (220,000 sq ft), completed in 16 months and can handle 1,400 peak hour passengers, which is 3 times more than the old terminal building, and ancillary buildings, car parking, city-side development and other associated works at the airport. The construction of the new apron and the taxiways including associated works for parking of 13 narrow body or small aircraft at the airport and there are some modern technologies, such as rainwater harvesting and solar energy will be used in the development of the new terminal building, by the commissioning of a new 2.5 GW solar power plant. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has taken up the work for expansion of the airport. The airport is the only air force base in India with two operational parallel runways.
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- ^ "Annexure III – Passenger Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "Annexure II – Aircraft Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "Annexure IV – Freight Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia Airport Terminal, AAI. "GWALIOR AIRPORT".
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