Porbandar Airport is a public airport in

Porbandar Porbandar is a city in the States and territories of India, Indian state of Gujarat, perhaps best known for being the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and Sudama. It is the administrative center of the Porbandar District and it was the former capi ...

, Gujarat, India. Currently, civilian flights are not operational. Apart from civilian operations it also has a military presence in the form of

INAS 343 INAS 343 (Indian Naval Air Squadron 343) is an aviation squadron of the Indian Navy, operating IAI Heron and IAI Searcher MkII UAVs based at Porbandar. It is the second squadron in the navy dedicated to operating UAVs after INAS 342 at Kochi. ...

of the Indian Navy and CGAE Porbandar of the Indian Coast Guard. A new terminal building was opened in April 2008.New Terminal Building at Porbandar Airport
''Press Information Bureau, Government of India'' There are currently no scheduled passenger flights from the airport.

Structure

The airfield is spread over , has a long runway and an apron that can accommodate 2 ATR 72 aircraft. The new Terminal Building at Porbandar Airport has been built at a cost of . The building has six Check-in Counters and two Conveyor Belts in the Arrivals hall and can handle 100 arriving and 100 departing passengers at a time.

Military Enclaves

Naval Air Enclave

, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Squadron, was commissioned at the Naval Air Enclave, Porbandar in January 2011. This is the first Operational UAV Squadron under the Western Naval Command. Nicknamed ‘Frontier Formidables’, the Squadron operates

IAI Heron The IAI Heron (Machatz-1) is a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by the Malat (UAV) division of Israel Aerospace Industries. It is capable of Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) operations of up to 52 h ...

and

IAI Searcher The IAI Searcher (also known by the Hebrew name מרומית ''Meyromit'' - "Marsh tern", or officially in Israel as the חוגלה ''Hugla'' - "Alectoris") is a reconnaissance UAV developed in Israel in the 1980s. In the following decade, it re ...

MkII UAVs and has the dual tasks of undertaking operational missions besides providing training. *

INAS 314 The Indian Naval Air Squadron 314 (INAS 314) is a naval squadron of the Indian Navy based at Porbandar. The squadron was commissioned on 29 November 2019 by Vice Admiral MS Pawar. This squadron is currently operational under the Western Naval ...

"Raptors" a new EW squadron was established on 29 November 2019. This squadron is responsible to undertake maritime surveillance in

North Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea ( ar, اَلْبَحرْ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Bahr al-ˁArabī) is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel ...

. Dornier 228 is currently operated by this squadron.

CGAE Porbandar

Coast Guard Air Enclave, Porbandar, was commissioned on 12 June 2008. It provides logistical and administrative support to the Dornier Flight and 850 Sqn (ICG) which operates the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH).Indian Coast Guard Aviation
'' Indian Coast Guard''

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