Bharatpur Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Bharatpur Airport
nativename =


IATA = BHR
ICAO = VNBP
type = Public
owner =
operator = Government
city-served = Bharatpur, Nepal
location =
elevation-f = 840
elevation-m = 240
website =
metric-rwy = y
r1-number = 09/27
r1-length-f = 4,053
r1-length-m = 1,158
r1-surface = Asphalt
footnotes = Sources: CAAN [ http://caanepal.org.np/bharat_airport.htmBharatpur Airport] at Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal] and DAFIFWAD|VNBP|source=DAFIF] GCM|BHR|source=DAFIF]

Bharatpur Airport is located just one miles south-west of Bharatpur in, Nepal airport codes|BHR|VNBP. . The airport is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) and is served by Nepal Airlines, the national airline which earns most of its revenue from this airport too, Cosmic Air, Yeti Airlince, Buddha Air, and Gorkha airlines, Bharatpur airport is also a base of the first and only fixed-wing pilot training school in Nepal.

Shivani Air(p)Ltd is the first fixed-wing pilot training school in the aviation history of Nepal, (there is Helicopter flaying training school under Nepalese Army Air Service) providing commercial pilot license training of international standard FAA,ICAO Establishment of Shivani Air(p)Ltd Pilot Training school is the outcome of a group of experienced and Professional’s joint envisioned endeavors, who want to fill up the growing requirements of aero plane pilots..

Bharatpur airport is serving as the country's 4th busiest and one of the important airport in the country, it is the main gateway of the tourist of Chitwan National Park.Bharatpur Airport is a last growing domestic airport in teens of aircraft and passenger traffic. The traffic trend for five years shows a steady growth of aircraft and passenger movement at this airport. The data up to November 2005 shows a growth of 7.5% and 17.6% against figures in the year 2004.

Operating authority

Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN)

History

This airport was start within the resettlement and malaria control in Chitwan valley under the assistance of the Government of United State of America. The first passenger carrying flight landed in the airport in 05 marches 1965.

Profile

* Date of First Service - March 5, 1961
* Coordinates - 274041 N-0842546E
* Elevation - 600ft. AMSL
* Ref. Temperature - 35°C
* Runway Designation - 15/33 North-West/South-East
* Runway Dimension - 1158 x 30 meter.
* Surface - Bitumen
* Service - Air Traffic Control Service
* Design Aircraft - Fokker,AVRO,ATR, Beech 1900, and SAAB 340

Airlines and destinations

*Cosmic Air (Kathmandu)
*Yeti Airlines (Kathmandu)
* Nepal Airlines
* Buddha Air
* Gorkha Airlines
* Skyline Airways
* Shivani Air

Expansion

The airport was initially served by domestic flights with grass runway from Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu and Pokhara Airport in Pokhara by the country's national airline Nepal Airlines. After many years of lobbying by the local people and expatriates living in the abroad, limited expansion of the airport was carried out new terminal building has been made, the 1158 miter runway is paved for the enable medium-sized aircraft, such as the Avro used by Nepal Airlince and Nicon Air, to operate. The work was completed in October 2005. but the FokkerJet of Cosmic Air is unable to operate in this airport due to 150 miter short length of the runway.

The growing demand of the people of Chitwan valley for the international airport force government to study the possibility in Chitwan valley , the survey was began in 1988 and completed in 1989 the survey units advice the government to sale the land of current airport and another airport in Meghauli and buy the land in Sibaghat aria to make a international airport with east west runway on the banks of Naryani River , its clearly said that making a international airport in Sivghat aria of the valley with east west runway will never make sound pollution to the wild animal of Chitwan National Park nearly 40 to 50 km far. And sealing the valuable land of Current airports (it is in the city center of Bharatpur) will cover 75% expenditure, But this survey never implemented by the government authorities but the local people and expatriates of Chitwan valley are continuing their demand to make a international Airport within Chitwan Valley.

Incidents and accidents

*12 July 1969 - RNA Douglas DC-3D (9N-AAP) collided with a tree while flying over a cloud covered ridge at 7,300 feet at Hitauda,(70 km of Bharatpur Airport) Nepal. All four crew and 31 passengers were killed. [http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?sorteer=datekey_desc&kind=%&cat=%&page=1&field=Operatorkey&var=5478 Aviation Safety Network] retrieved 18 November 2006]

*31 July 1993 - Everest Air Dornier 228-101, on a flight from Kathmandu to Bharatpur, struck a mountain at Bharatpur. All 3 crew and 16 passengers were killed. [ [http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19930731-1 Aviation Safety Network] retrieved 19 November 2006]
*25 April 1996 - RNA BAe 748 Series 2B (9N-ABR) overran the runway at Meghauli Airport,(19 km of Bharatpur Airport) after a flight from Kathmandu, when landing in rain on the grass airstrip. The aircraft ran across some ditches, causing the nosegear to collapse. None of the 4 crew and 27 passengers were injured.

References

External links

* http://www.caanepal.org.np/bharat_airport.htm