Along Airport also known as Aalo Airport is located at Along in the

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. The

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handed over the airstrip to the Ministry of Defence in June 2009. The government has proposed to operationalise a

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at the airport. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) had sent a report to the state government and the Indian Air Force in July 2011 for the removal of obstacles around the aerodrome for safe flight operations and cited a requirement of seven acres of land for the development of the civil enclave.

Incidents

On 7 April 1964, a

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overshot the runway and caught fire. There were no casualties, though the aircraft was damaged beyond economic repair.

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