Maharana Pratap Airport

Maharana Pratap Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorAirports Authority of India
ServesUdaipur
LocationDabok, Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India
Elevation AMSL513 m / 1,684 ft
Coordinates24°37′03.2″N 73°53′40″E / 24.617556°N 73.89444°E / 24.617556; 73.89444
WebsiteUdaipur Airport
Map
UDR is located in Rajasthan
UDR
UDR
Location of the airport in Rajasthan
UDR is located in India
UDR
UDR
UDR (India)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 2,743 9,000 Asphalt
Statistics (April 2023 - March 2024)
Passengers1,503,535 (Increase 10.9%)
Aircraft movements13,520 (Increase 23.1%)
Cargo tonnage247 (Decrease 35.7%)

Maharana Pratap Airport (IATA: UDR, ICAO: VAUD) is a domestic airport serving Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. It is situated at Dabok, located 22 km (14 mi) east of Udaipur.[5] The airport is named after Maharana Pratap who was a Maharana (ruler) of the princely state of Mewar, in north-western India.

The airstrip was used for the first time when a 4-seater Piper Super Cub landed in the airport on 16 November 1957.[6][7] The airport's new passenger terminal commenced operations in February 2008.[8]

  1. ^ "Annexure III – Passenger Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Annexure II – Aircraft Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Annexure IV – Freight Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference udaipur_technicalinfo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Udaipur Airport Domestic Terminal". Udaipur Airport. Archived from the original on 16 November 2019.
  6. ^ "Udaipur's first pilot". The Times of India. 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  7. ^ "For the first time, a plane passing through Jaipur had reached Udaipur's Dabok airport, Tiwari had a dialogue with everyone from Rajiv Gandhi to Narendra Modi". Bhaskar (in Hindi). 29 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Udaipur airport readied in time for Praful's daughter's wedding". The Times of India. 19 February 2008. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2011.

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