Bir Tikendrajit International Airport
Airport in Manipur, India
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Bir Tikendrajit International Airport[a][4][5] (IATA: IMF, ICAO: VEIM), also known as Imphal Airport,[b] and formerly known as Tulihal International Airport,[c] is an international airport serving Imphal, the capital of Manipur, India, located 7 km south from the city centre. It is the second-largest and the third-busiest airport in Northeast India after Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati and Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala. The airport had functioned as an all-weather Royal Air Force (RAF) base during World War II. It replaced civilian operations from Koirengei Airfield in 1959.[6]
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Manipur | ||||||||||
| Operator | Airports Authority of India | ||||||||||
| Serves | Imphal | ||||||||||
| Location | Tulihal, Imphal, Manipur, India | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 774 m / 2,540 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 24°45′36″N 093°53′48″E | ||||||||||
| Website | Imphal Airport | ||||||||||
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  IMF Location of airport in Manipur  IMF IMF (India) | |||||||||||
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| Source: AAI[1][2][3] | |||||||||||
Development
In June 2019, Airports Authority of India (AAI) implemented ₹3,400 crore (US$360 million) projects for the upgrading of various airports in the northeastern region. ₹720 crore (US$76 million) will be spent further upgrading of Imphal Airport.[7] The project includes a ₹600 crore (US$63 million) integrated terminal building and airside infrastructure like new aircraft parking bays (areas at an airport where aircraft can be parked, unloaded, loaded, refuelled, boarded, or maintained) and link taxiways, a new Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower and a control and technical block.[8]
The new terminal building will have an area of 28,125 sq.m. to handle 1,200 peak hour passengers (200 international & 1,000 domestic), an apron with four aerobridges and eight parking bays for Airbus A321 type aircraft, two link taxiways, and an ATC tower.[9]
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
Accidents and incidents
- On 16 August 1991, Indian Airlines Flight 257 crashed while on approach to the airport, killing all 69 people on board.[18]
Gallery
A trilingual signboard in the airport displaying in Meitei (officially called Manipuri), Hindi and English
A Child Care Room in the Imphal International Airport with a signboard in Meitei, Hindi and English languages, showing official multilingualism in India
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See also
Notes
- "Bir Tikendrajit International Airport" is named after Bir Tikendrajit (Meitei name: Athouba Koirengsana), a Meitei prince of the Ningthouja dynasty of Manipur Kingdom
