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IIT Kanpur Airport

Kanpur, India

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VI75

Elevation

400 ft

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Kanpur · UP · India

Position

26.520°, 80.233° · 400 ft elev.

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Private airstrip serving IIT Kanpur's academic campus.

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Kanpur, India

IIT Kanpur Airport is a small, restricted-use airstrip located within the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, one of India's premier engineering and research institutions. The facility is not open to commercial aviation and primarily supports institutional activities, research flights, and occasional light aircraft operations. The airstrip operates under ICAO identifier VI75 and has no IATA code assigned, reflecting its non-commercial status. It is distinct from Kanpur's main civil airport, Kanpur Airport (Chakeri Air Force Station), which handles scheduled passenger services.

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›Located within the IIT Kanpur campus, a leading Indian technical university.
›Not open to scheduled commercial air traffic.
›Assigned ICAO code VI75 with no corresponding IATA code.
›Supports research, training, and institutional aviation activities.
›Kanpur's main commercial aviation hub is the nearby Chakeri Air Force Station airport.

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Flight Laboratory, IIT Kanpur is an airstrip/aerodrome located inside IIT Kanpur's campus at Kalyanpur, 18 kilometres west of city of Kanpur, India. It is used by the Aerospace Engineering department of IIT Kanpur. Pawan Hans began a helicopter ferry service to Lucknow from June 2013, which was later quietly shut down.

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Flight Laboratory, IIT Kanpur

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