Marhamtabad Airstrip
Marhamtabad Airstrip is an airstrip situated at Marhamtabad in Kanpur Dehat of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is owned by the Uttar Pradesh Government.
Marhamtabad Airstrip | |||||||||||
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 VT-UPR of Uttar Pradesh Government at Kanpur Dehat's Marhamtabad Airstrip (2018) | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | U.P. Government | ||||||||||
| Location | Marhamtabad, Kanpur dehat, Uttar Pradesh, India | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | -- ft / -- m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26.581860°N 79.977667°E | ||||||||||
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The Airport Authority of India (AAI) requested the Government of Uttar Pradesh to provide a 300-metre-wide and three-kilometre-long piece of land in the Kanpur Dehat district to develop an airport of international standards in 2013.[1] The project was approved in 2015 when the Civil Aviation Department of Uttar Pradesh granted the permission to set up an airstrip at Marahmatabad village near Shivli.[2] The construction work of the airstrip was completed by 2018 and trial run of an airplane was done by civil aviation department in 2018.[3]
References
- https://m.timesofindia.com/city/kanpur/International-airport-proposed-near-Kanpur/articleshow/46156622.cms
- https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/kanpur/airport-runway-in-kanpur-dehat-hindi-news
- https://m.livehindustan.com/uttar-pradesh/story-small-plane-landed-on-the-mehmatabad-airspace-of-kanpur-dehat-1841273.html
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