Rasoolabad International Airport
Rasoolabad International Airport | |
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| Location | Rasulabad, Kanpur (Rural) District, Uttar Pradesh[1] |
Rasoolabad International Airport is a proposed international airport near Indian city of Kanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The Airport Authority of India (AAI) requested the Government of Uttar Pradesh to provide 300-metre-wide and three-kilometre-long piece of land in Kanpur Dehat district to develop an airport of international standards in 2013. [2]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 town.[3]The construction work of the airstrip was completed by 2018 and trial run of an airplane was done by civil aviation department in 2018. [4]
References
- ^ "International airport proposed near Kanpur". Daily News Analysis. Retrieved 9 Feb 2015.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ 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