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Adding local short description: "Airport in Maharashtra, India", overriding Wikidata description "airport in India" (Shortdesc helper)

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{{Short description|Airport in Maharashtra, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2013}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2013}}
{{Infobox airport
| name = Osmanabad Airport
| nativename =उस्मानाबाद विमानतळ
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| IATA = OMN;<ref>http://www.gcmap.com/airport/OMN (retrieved 17 January 2019)</ref>
| pushpin_map = India Maharashtra#India
| pushpin_label = '''OMN'''
| coordinates = {{coord|18|16|43|N|076|03|12|E|region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_mapsize = 250
| type = Public
| owner = [[Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation]]
| built = [[Reliance Infrastructure#Reliance Airport Project|Reliance Airport Developers]]
| operator = Osmanbad Airport Pvt. Ltd
| city-served = [[Osmanabad]]
| location = Osmanabad, Maharashtra
| elevation-f = 2260
| elevation-m = 689
| website =
| metric-elev =
| metric-rwy =
| r1-number = 04/22
| r1-length-f = 3,966
| r1-length-m = 1,200
| r1-surface = [[Asphalt]]
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''' Osmanabad Airport''' is a public [[airport]] located off [[National Highway 211 (India)|NH 211]], 10 km north of the town of [[Osmanabad]], in the [[Marathwada]] region of [[Maharashtra]], [[India]].

The airfield was built in 1984 and managed by the Public Works Department of the State Government.<ref>{{cite web |title=Airstrips in Maharashtra |url=http://www.mahapwd.com/statistics/airstrips.htm |publisher= Maharashtra Public Works Department |access-date=3 February 2012 }}</ref> In 2009, [[Reliance Infrastructure#Reliance Airport Project|Reliance Airport Developers]] won a bid to run the airport on a 95-year lease along with four other airports— [[Nanded Airport|Nanded]], [[Baramati Airport|Baramati]], [[Yavatmal airport|Yavatmal]] and [[Latur Airport|Latur]].<ref name = "TOI">{{cite news|title=Reliance Airport gets five projects on lease |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-08-06/india-business/28178331_1_greenfield-airport-reliance-airport-developers-midc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927183635/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-08-06/india-business/28178331_1_greenfield-airport-reliance-airport-developers-midc |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2012 |date= 6 August 2009 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=19 September 2011}}</ref><ref name = "IE6">{{cite news|title=MIDC-run airports set for makeover |url=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/midcrun-airports-set-for-makeover/329583/ |publisher=[[Indian Express]] |date= 1 July 2008 |access-date=19 September 2011}}</ref> The airport does not see any air traffic apart from visits from the odd state government aircraft and operations of the flying school based here.<ref>{{cite news|title=R-ADPL: The report card! |url=http://www.businessandeconomy.org/30092010/storyd.asp?sid=5599&pageno=1 |publisher=Business & Economy |date= 8 January 2010 |access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref>

==Structure==
Osmanabad airport has one runway oriented 04/22, 1,200 metres in length with a 10 metre wide parallel taxiway running along its entire length on the north side. It has an apron measuring 60 metres by 80 metres connected to the southwest end of the runway by means of a taxi-way. MIDC has constructed a terminal building next to the apron at a cost of Rs. 89 Lacs.<ref name="National Web Network India">{{cite news |title=Aviation Academy proposed at Osmanabad Airport |url=http://osmanabad.nwn.in/2011/01/08/aviation-academy-praposed-at-osmanabad-airport/ |publisher=National Web Network India |date=8 January 2011 |access-date=20 September 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The flying school has a separate apron and hangar on the northern edge of the airfield.

==See also==
* [[Reliance Infrastructure]]
* [[Nanded Airport|Guru Gobind Singhji Airport]] - [[Nanded]]
* [[Latur Airport]]
* [[Baramati Airport]]
* Osmanabad Airport
* [[Yavatmal airport]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

{{Airports in India}}

[[Category:Airports in Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Osmanabad district]]
[[Category:Airports established in 1984]]
[[Category:1984 establishments in Maharashtra]]

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