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 Airport (IATA: GWL, ICAO: VIGR), also known as Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Terminal, is a Domestic Airport manage and operates 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 four major airports in Madhya Pradesh. The airport is named after Vijaya Raje Scindia, one of the founding members of Bharatiya Janata Party, former prominent Member of Parliament and Maharani of the erstwhile Gwalior State ruled by the Scindia dynasty. It is the oldest and largest airport of Madhya Pradesh in terms of size and only airport in Central India which has two runways. It is the closest Airport to the famous Kuno National Park[6] (home to Namibian Cheetahs).
In 1937, JRD Tata and Nevill Vincent piloted a Waco YQC-6 biplane VT-AIX on the first airmail service between Gwalior and Bombay.[7]
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".
- ^ "How to reach". Kuno National Park. 11 October 2024. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
- ^ Goswami, Arunansh B. (6 August 2023). "The Maharajas of Indian aviation — how three generations of Scindias pioneered air travel". The Print. Retrieved 11 October 2024.