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Bir Tikendrajit International Airport

Bir Tikendrajit International Airport, also known as Imphal Airport, and formerly known as Tulihal International Airport, is an international airport serving Imphal, the capital of Manipur, India, located 7 km south from the city centre. It is the second-largest and the third-busiest airport in Northeast India after Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati and Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala. The airport had functioned as an all-weather Royal Air Force (RAF) base during World War II. It replaced civilian operations from Koirengei Airfield in 1959.

Development
In June 2019, Airports Authority of India (AAI) implemented projects for the upgrading of various airports in the northeastern region. will be spent further upgrading of Imphal Airport. The project includes a integrated terminal building and airside infrastructure like new aircraft parking bays (areas at an airport where aircraft can be parked, unloaded, loaded, refuelled, boarded, or maintained) and link taxiways, a new Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower and a control and technical block. The new terminal building will have an area of 28,125 sq.m. to handle 1,200 peak hour passengers (200 international & 1,000 domestic), an apron with four aerobridges and eight parking bays for Airbus A321 type aircraft, two link taxiways, and an ATC tower. == Airlines and destinations ==
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Busiest flights == Accidents and incidents ==
Accidents and incidents
• On 16 August 1991, Indian Airlines Flight 257 crashed while on approach to the airport, killing all 69 people on board. == Gallery ==
Gallery
File:Trilingual signboard in the Imphal International Airport (Tulihal International Airport) displaying in Meitei, Hindi and English languages.jpg|A trilingual signboard in the airport displaying in Meitei (officially called Manipuri), Hindi and English File:A Child Care Room in the Imphal International Airport, showing multilingualism of Meitei, Hindi and English.jpg|A Child Care Room in the Imphal International Airport with a signboard in Meitei, Hindi and English languages, showing official multilingualism in India == See also ==
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