Bajura Airport

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Bajura Airport
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner Government of Nepal
Operator Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal
Serves Bajura, Nepal
Location Budhinanda, Nepal
Opened1 October 1984
Elevation  AMSL 4,300 ft / 1,311 m
Coordinates 29°30′N81°40′E / 29.500°N 81.667°E / 29.500; 81.667 Coordinates: 29°30′N81°40′E / 29.500°N 81.667°E / 29.500; 81.667
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Bajura Airport
Location of airport in Nepal
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
09/275201,880Asphalt
Source: [1]

Bajura Airport( IATA : BJU, ICAO : VNBR) is a domestic airport located in Budhinanda serving Bajura District, [1] a district in Sudurpashchim Province in Nepal. [2]

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Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 4,300 feet (1,311 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway which is 520 metres (1,706 ft) in length. [1]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Nepal Airlines Dhangadhi, [3] Nepalgunj [4]
Sita Air Nepalgunj [5]
Summit Air Birendranagar, Nepalgunj [6]
Tara Air Nepalgunj [7]

Incidents and accidents

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Airport information for Bajura, Nepal (VNBR / BJU) at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. "Bajura Airport" (PDF). Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  3. "NAC resumes flights to Bajhang, Achham and Doti". Online Khabar. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  4. "Schedule Effective from 15 May, 2010 to 30 October, 2010". Nepal Airlines. Archived from the original on 19 July 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
  5. "Flight Schedule". Sita Air. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  6. "Network-of-Summit-Air". Summit Air. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. Scheduled Flights Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine . Taraair.com.
  8. "Pilot killed, 2 injured as NA cargo airplane crashes in Bajura". myrepublica.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.