RAF Kalyan

Summary
Airport typeMilitary
OperatorRoyal Air Force
LocationKalyan, Maharashtra, India
Elevation AMSL60 ft / 20 m
Coordinates19°10′44.41″N 073°07′0.67″E / 19.1790028°N 73.1168528°E / 19.1790028; 73.1168528
Map
RAF Kalyan is located in India
RAF Kalyan
RAF Kalyan
Location in India
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08/26 6,000 1,830 Concrete
03/21 6,000 1,830 Concrete

RAF Kalyan was a Royal Air Force station located at Nevali village 6 km south of Kalyan, operational during World War II in British India. It was the primary landing ground for the nearby city of Bombay (now Mumbai) as early as 1920,[1] much before the airfields of Juhu and RAF Santacruz were established. Several Fighter Squadrons and support units were stationed at Kalyan from 1942 to 1947.[2] The field was abandoned after the war.

Unit Dates Aircraft
No. 20 Squadron RAF 1945–1946 Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Tempest
No. 110 Squadron RAF March 1942 Vultee Vengeance, de Havilland Mosquito
No. 7110 Servicing Echelon 30 Sep – 6 Oct 1944
No. 3 Mobile Parachute Servicing Unit 1945 – Jan 1946
No 129 Staging post 31 Jan – 7 Apr 1945

Current use

The site now hosts a research and development laboratory of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Imperial Air Routes". FlightGlobal. 5 February 1920. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  2. ↑ "RAF Kalyan". www.rafweb.org. 9 January 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Sanjay Jog (20 January 2013). "NSA had rejected Kalyan site for Mumbai airport in 2007". Business Standard News. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
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