Jodhpur Airport: Difference between revisions

{{Use Indian English|date=February 2022}}

The Jodhpur Flying Club was set up by Maharaja [[Umaid Singh]] in the 1920s at a small airfield near his Chittar Palace ([[Umaid Bhavan Palace]]) in Jodhpur. Through the next three decades, the airfield grew in stature, being used as an [[List of former Royal Air Force stations#Rest of the World|airfield for the Royal Air Force (RAF)]] during World War II.<ref>{{citation |title=The History of the Jodhpur Flying Club|url=http://www.cgpublishing.com/Books/jodhpur.html|publisher= CGPublishing |access-date=30 November 2022}}</ref> The airfield was upgraded in 1950 after the formation of the [[Royal Indian Air Force]] (which later became the Indian Air Force).<ref>{{cite news |title=South Asia's Most Powerful Air Base at Jodhpur |url=http://www.defencenews.in/defence-news-internal.asp?get=new&id=734 |publisher=Defence News |date=6 October 2011 |access-date=30 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407125655/http://www.defencenews.in/defence-news-internal.asp?get=new&id=734 |archive-date=7 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Jodhpur was home to the IAF's Air Force Flying College until the 1965 war.<ref>{{cite web |title=Side Show in the South-Western Sector |url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1965War/Chapter8.html |publisher=Bharat Rakshak.com |access-date=30 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117222535/http://bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1965War/Chapter8.html |archive-date=17 November 2011 }}</ref>