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Jodhpur Airport (VIJO/JDH) is a joint civil-military aerodrome on the edge of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, sharing its runway and airside with the Indian Air Force's Jodhpur Air Force Station. Its single hard-surfaced runway, fitted with an ILS, has a long and distinguished aviation pedigree stretching back to the 1920s, when it served as a key staging post on the Karachi to Calcutta air route.
Jodhpur Airport is a combined civil and military aerodrome serving the city of Jodhpur in the State of Rajasthan, India. It is operated by the Airports Authority of India but shares its airside with the Jodhpur Air Force Station of the Indian Air Force, making it one of the more historically and operationally interesting fields in the region for a visiting pilot, with a long single hard runway equipped with an ILS and a working front-line military presence alongside scheduled domestic services.
The airfield lies at Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, on the margins of the Thar Desert. It is a domestic airport that also functions as an active Indian Air Force base, with airside infrastructure shared between the AAI's civil operations and the IAF's Jodhpur Air Force Station. No specific airspace classification or neighbouring controlled airspace detail is given in available sources.
Jodhpur has a single physical runway, 05/23, of hard surface construction and lit for night operations. Runway 05 is 9,639 feet long and equipped with an ILS; runway 23 is 9,896 feet long. Field elevation is 712 feet.
Approach can be contacted on 122.7 MHz and Tower on 123.5 MHz. The airfield is equipped with an Instrument Landing System on runway 05, together with DVOR/DME and an NDB, and has night landing facilities.
Aviation at Jodhpur dates to 1924, when Maharaja Umaid Singh had a landing strip cleared near the under-construction Chittar Palace, later known as Umaid Bhawan Palace, for private flying. In 1931 he founded the Jodhpur Flying Club, the first flying club established by an Indian princely state, appointing Geoffrey Goodwin of Johannesburg as its first instructor; the club initially flew two De Havilland DH.60 Moths bought from the Delhi Flying Club and in 1932 became the first institution in India to take delivery of the De Havilland Tiger Moth. The aerodrome, built at a cost of 136,830 rupees, developed into an important staging post on the Karachi to Calcutta route operated jointly by Imperial Airways and Indian Trans-Continental Airways, and was also used by Air Orient and later Air France on their Paris to Saigon, Hanoi and Hong Kong services, and by KLM on its Amsterdam to Batavia route; by 1937 it was handling 877 aircraft a year. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Maharaja Umaid Singh placed the state's airfields at the disposal of the war effort, for which he was granted an honorary RAF commission and rose to Air Vice-Marshal. On 1 May 1942 the airfield and club were requisitioned as a military training centre with the formation of the No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School, and the base subsequently served as an RAF maintenance and staging post and later as a USAAF transit airfield supporting the China-Burma-India 'Hump' supply flights. After 1950 the airfield was upgraded following the formation of the Royal Indian Air Force, and Jodhpur went on to host the No. 2 Air Force Academy from 1949 to 1955 and the Air Force Flying College from 1957 to 1970.
Jodhpur Airport remains a dual-use field, operated for civil traffic by the Airports Authority of India while continuing as an active Indian Air Force station. The IAF base hosts squadrons of HAL Dhruv, HAL Prachand, HAL Chetak, Mil Mi-17 and Sukhoi Su-30MKI aircraft, together with a Garud Commando Force battalion, and was active during the 1999 Kargil War; a HAL Prachand unit, 143 Helicopter Unit, was inducted here in October 2022. On the civil side the airport handles scheduled domestic services from carriers including Air India and IndiGo, and a larger passenger terminal was inaugurated in July 2026 to accommodate rising traffic, alongside the existing terminal building.