Bareilly Airport


Bareilly Airport is an upcoming civil enclave at the Indian Air Force's Trishul Air Base in Izzatnagar, north of Bareilly in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Terminal

Bareilly Airport was inaugurated by state civil aviation minister Nand Gopal Nandi and Union minister Santosh Gangwar on 10 March 2019 at the civil enclave of Trishul Air Base.
The terminal building is 2500 square meter; can handle 150 passengers during the peak hour. Its new apron measuring 95×100 metres provides parking space for 2 ATR aircraft at a time as per IMG Norms and with car park for 75 cars.
Bareilly will be connected to Lucknow and Delhi under the UDAN scheme of central government. Flights from Bareilly to Delhi or Bareilly to Lucknow will start in October 2020. On the directives of AAI and DGCA, the airport will be operating 72-seater flights with ATR aircraft.

Trishul Air Base

Trishul Air Base, one of the Indian Air Force's largest, is a part of the Central Air Command. The base has a squadron of Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighters and a helicopter squadron. It had Foxbat spyplanes capable of flying up to. Its underground hangar is considered one of Asia's largest.

Civil enclave

The Airports Authority of India approved construction of a passenger terminal at the Bareilly civil enclave. The district administration bought of land from local farmers for the project. The AAI began the tender process to award construction contracts for the airport in September 2017 and expected the civil enclave to be ready by March 2018, pending Uttar Pradesh government approval. However, the IAF requested changes in the layout of the taxiway connecting the terminal to the runway. After the Ministry of Defence approved the taxiway, passenger service was hoped to begin by February 2019.