Hosur Aerodrome is an airport located at Belagondapalli 10 Kilometres southwest of
Hosur
Hosur is an industrial city located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Hosur is one of the municipal corporations in Tamil Nadu. It is located on the bank of the river River Ponnaiyar, southeast of Bengaluru and west of Chennai, the state ...
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...
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India
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The airfield is owned by Taneja aerospace and aviation Limited (TAAL), established in 1994 as the first private sector company to manufacture
General Aviation
General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...
aircraft in India. TAAL uses the airfield for its Aircraft Manufacturing, Sales and MRO businesses. This aerodrome is approved and licensed by the
Directorate General of Civil Aviation under private use category. The aerodrome complex also houses MRO facilities of Air Works India
and widebody aircraft painting facilities of Air Livery.
Many Indian carriers notably
SpiceJet,
GoAir and
Vistara send their aircraft to Hosur for
'C' checks pand 1200 hours inspections by Air Works Ltd., and for painting done by Air Livery.
Structure
Hosur Aerodrome has one asphalt runway, oriented 09/27, 7012 feet long and 150 feet wide, capable of accepting
Airbus A-320
The Airbus A320 family is a series of narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus.
The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air France.
The first member of the famil ...
and
Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton Factory in Washington.
Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating with two un ...
aircraft and has night landing facilities which are pending approval. At the moment, the airfield is purely VFR lying in the local flying area of
HAL Bangalore Airport; approach control to aircraft is provided by HAL ATC and terminal advisory control is provided by Hosur Tower.
Navigational aids at Hosur include
PAPI lights and an
Aerodrome beacon
An aerodrome beacon or rotating beacon or aeronautical beacon is a beacon installed at an airport or aerodrome to indicate its location to aircraft pilots at night.
An aerodrome beacon is mounted on top of a towering structure, often a control ...
. It has
aprons measuring 110 × 90 and 110 × 80 metres for jet aircraft and another one measuring 40 × 19 metres for
Turboprop
A turboprop is a turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller.
A turboprop consists of an intake, reduction gearbox, compressor, combustor, turbine, and a propelling nozzle. Air enters the intake and is compressed by the compressor. Fuel ...
and light aircraft.
References
External links
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Article in Deccan Herald{{Airports in India
Airports in Tamil Nadu
Krishnagiri district
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