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{{Short description|Indian Air Force base in Western Sector}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox airport
|name= Adampur Airport,Jalandhar
| nativename = Adampur Air Force Station,Jalandhar
| nativename-a =
| image =Roundel of India.svg
| image-width =
| caption =
| IATA = AIP
| ICAO = VIAX
| type = Military/ Public
| owner =
| operator = [[Indian Air Force]], [[Airports Authority Of India|AAI]]
| city-served = [[Jalandhar]]
| location = [[Jalandhar]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
| elevation-f = 776
| elevation-m = 236
| coordinates = {{coord|31|25|59|N|075|45|38|E|region:IN_type:airport|display=inline,title}}
| website =
| metric-rwy = y
| r1-number = 31/13
| r1-length-m = 2,755
| r1-length-f = 9,039
| r1-surface = Asphalt
| r2-number =
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| r2-length-f =
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| pushpin_map= India Punjab#India
| pushpin_relief =
| pushpin_label = '''AIP'''
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of the airport in Punjab
}}
'''Adampur Airport, Jalandhar''' is located at Adampur Town of Jalandhar district in Northern India. It is situated on the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur main Highway 23 kilometers northeast of [[Jalandhar]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]. Adampur Airforce Station, Jalandhar is also situated here. It is the second largest military airbase of India.
It lies within 100 km of the Indo-Pak Border and is home to [[No. 47 Squadron IAF]] and [[No. 223 Squadron IAF]].

==History==
'''Adampur Airport, Jalandhar''' is a very old base station. The base played a crucial role in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]]. On 6 September 1965, the PAF attacked Indian airfields at Pathankot AFS, Halwara AFS & Adampur AFS, Jalandhar. The attacks on Halwara and Adampur were failures. The Strike group turned back before even reaching Adampur.

On 7 September 1965, the PAF [[parachute]]d 135 [[Special Services Group]] (SSG) para commandos<ref>{{cite news|title=The 1965 War: A view from the east|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/oct/05war.htm |access-date=21 November 2011 |newspaper=Rediff news}}</ref> at three Indian airfields (Halwara, Pathankot and Adampur).<ref name="Lal1986"/> The daring attempt proved to be an "unmitigated disaster". Only ten commandos were able to return to Pakistan,<ref name="Lal1986"/> the rest were taken as prisoners of war (including one of the Commanders of the operations, Major Khalid Butt). At Adampur these troops landed in residential areas where the villagers caught and handed them over to police.<ref name="Lal1986">{{cite book |author=Pratap Chandra Lal|title=My years with the IAF|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vvTM-xbW41MC&pg=PA138|year=1986|publisher=Lancer Publishers |isbn=978-81-7062-008-2 |page=138}}</ref>

The [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]] on western front started with [[Operation Chengiz Khan]] on 3 December 1971. Pathankot Air Force Station was hit and runway heavily damaged. Pathankot was covered by interceptors from Adampur AFS, Jalandhar following this first strike during the time it took the ground crew to repair its runway.<ref name=lal>"My years with the IAF" by Air Chief Marshal P C Lal</ref>

During [[1999 Kargil Conflict]] flying from Adampur AFS, Jalandhar, Mirages of [[No. 7 Squadron IAF]] struck Tigerhill, Muntho Dhalo and Tololing.

==Aircraft==
Adampur Air base operates [[MiG-29|MiG-29UPG]] variant after recently completed overhauls to the older B/UB fleet.
[[File:MiG-29B Adampur.jpg|thumb|A MiG-29 based at Adampur.]]

==Civil Enclave==
The [[Airports Authority of India]] has built a '''Adampur Airport, Jalandhar''' at a cost of Rs 18 crore<ref>{{cite news|title=A year gone, Adampur airport, Jalandhar awaits take-off |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/jalandhar/a-year-gone-adampur-airport-awaits-take-off/529872.html |date=17 January 2018|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref> at Kandola village of Jalandhar district adjoining the airbase to facilitate commercial civil aviation. The Central government had cleared the techno-feasibility report for setting up the Adampur Airport, Jalandhar in July 2015 after AAI had inspected the proposed site of 50 acres of land after receiving No Objection Certificate from [[Indian Air Force]].<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/AAI-team-examines-proposed-site-for-Adampur-airport/articleshow/48601029.cms AAI team examines proposed site for Adampur airport]</ref><ref>[http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/punjab-to-build-new-domestic-airport-at-adampur-540364 Punjab to build new domestic airport at Adampur]</ref><ref>[http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/commercial-status-for-adampur-airport-soon-sukhbir-singh-badal-779121 Commercial Status for Adampur Airport Soon: Sukhbir Singh Badal]</ref><ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/jalandhar/clamour-grows-for-domestic-airport-at-adampur/103857.html Clamour grows for domestic airport at Adampur]</ref>
Commercial flights started on 1 May 2018 when [[SpiceJet]] began operations under the UDAN Regional Connectivity Service (RCS) of the Government of India.<ref>{{cite news|title=Flights from Adampur Airport, Jalandhar to start on 1 May |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/jalandhar/flights-from-adampur-to-start-on-may-1/570518.html |date=8 April 2018|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref>

==Airlines and destinations ==
{{Airport destination list|3rdcoltitle={{Abbr|Refs.|References}}|3rdcolunsortable=yes
|[[SpiceJet]]|[[Indira Gandhi International Airport|Delhi]], [[Jaipur International Airport|Jaipur]], [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport|Mumbai]] |<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spicejet.com/Schedules.aspx|title=SpiceJet flight schedule|work=SpiceJet|access-date=12 January 2020}}</ref>
}}

==See also==
{{colbegin}}
*[[List of Indian Air Force stations]]
*[[Western Air Command (India)]]
*[[Indian Air Force]]
*[[8-Pass Charlie]]
{{colend}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Airports in India}}

[[Category:Indian Air Force bases]]
[[Category:Airports in Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Jalandhar district]]
[[Category:Airports with year of establishment missing]]