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{{short description|Airport in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{EngvarB|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox airport
| caption =
| location = Aurangabad, Maharashtra
| elevation-m = 582
| metric-elev =
| r1-length-f = 9,300
| r1-surface = Concrete/[[Asphalt]]
| metric-rwy =
| name = Aurangabad Airport
| image = Aurangabad Airport New Terminal Building.jpg
| image-width =
| IATA = IXU
| ICAO = VAAU
|pushpin_map = India Maharashtra#India
|pushpin_mapsize = 250
|pushpin_mark = Airplane_silhouette.svg
|pushpin_label = '''IXU'''
|coordinates = {{coord|19|51|46|N|75|23|53|E|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in India
| type = Public
| owner =
| operator = [[Airports Authority of India]]
| city-served =
| elevation-f = 1,917
| website =
| r1-number = 09/27
| r1-length-m = 2,835
| stat-year= 2014
|stat1-header= Passenger movements
|stat1-data= 347,734({{increase}}0%)
|stat2-header= Aircraft movements
|stat2-data= 4,521({{increase}}24%)
|stat3-header= Cargo tonnage
|stat3-data= 981 ({{decrease}}51%)
|footnotes = Source: [[Airport Authority of India|AAI]]<ref name="traffic_stats1">{{cite web|url=https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k20Annex3.pdf|title=Traffic News for the month of March 2020: Annexure-III|work=[[Airports Authority of India]]|date=22 May 2020|access-date= 22 May 2020|page=3}}</ref><ref name="traffic_stats2">{{cite web|url=https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k20Annex2.pdf|title=Traffic News for the month of March 2020: Annexure-II|work=[[Airports Authority of India]]|date=22 May 2020|access-date=22 May 2020|page=3}}</ref>
<ref name="traffic_stats3">{{cite web|url=https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k20Annex4.pdf |title=Traffic News for the month of March 2020: Annexure-IV|work=[[Airports Authority of India]]|date=22 May 2020|access-date= 22 May 2020|page=3}}
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'''Aurangabad Airport''' {{Airport codes|IXU|VAAU}}, is a public airport located in [[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]], Maharashtra, India. It is located about 5.5 km east of the city centre, and 11 km from Aurangabad Railway Station, along the Aurangabad-Nagpur State Highway. The airport is owned and operated by the Airports Authority of India, with one passenger terminal with 190,000 square-feet floor area.

The Maharashtra Government approved renaming the airport after [[Sambhaji|Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj]] on 5 March 2020 and said that the cabinet decision would be sent to the Union civil aviation ministry for approval.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/aurangabad-airport-renamed-as-chhatrapati-sambhaji-maharaj-airport-2190647|title=Aurangabad Airport Renamed As Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Airport|date=5 March 2020 |work=[[NDTV]]|access-date=5 March 2020}}</ref>

==Airlines and destinations==
{{airport-dest-list
| [[Air India]] | [[Indira Gandhi International Airport|Delhi]], [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport|Mumbai]]
| [[IndiGo]] | [[Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport|Ahmedabad]], [[Indira Gandhi International Airport|Delhi]], [[Rajiv Gandhi International Airport|Hyderabad]], [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport|Mumbai]]
}}

==Accidents and incidents==
* On 26 April 1993, [[Indian Airlines Flight 491]] (IC 491), A [[Boeing 737-2A8]] (Registered VT-ECQ) was on its connecting route from Delhi to Mumbai with en route stops at [[Jaipur International Airport|Jaipur]], [[Udaipur Airport|Udaipur]] and Aurangabad. The heavily laden aircraft started its takeoff from Aurangabad's runway 09 in hot and humid temperatures. After lifting off almost at the end of the runway, it impacted heavily with a lorry on a highway at the end of the runway. The left main landing gear, left engine bottom cowling and thrust reverser impacted the left side of the truck at a height of nearly seven feet from the level of the road. Thereafter the aircraft hit a high tension power lines nearly 3 km northeast of the runway and hit the ground. The aircraft was carrying 112 passengers and 6 crew members, 63 persons including the pilot, the co-pilot and 2 other members of the crew survived. 53 passengers and 2 members of the crew lost their lives.

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.aai.aero/en/node/77568 Aurangabad Airport] at the Airports Authority of India
*{{WAD|VAAU}}
*[http://www.jica.go.jp/english/operations/evaluation/jbic_archive/post/2007/pdf/project28_full.pdf ww.jica.go.jp] (Ajanta–Ellora Conservation and Tourism Development Project.)

{{Aurangabad district, Maharashtra topics}}
{{Airports in India}}

[[Category:Transport in Aurangabad, Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Airports in Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Aurangabad, Maharashtra]]
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