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Safdarjung Airport

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Safdarjung Airport New Delhi

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Underground tunnel from 7 RCR to Safdarjung airport for PM Modi

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Live Accident at Delhi airport while practising for Republic Day show One Dead

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Safdarjung Airport

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Robert Tor Russell: the real architect of Connaught Place, Safdarjung Airport & 'Lutyens' Bungalows'

Safdarjung Airport is an airport in New Delhi, India, in the neighbourhood of the same name. Established during the British Raj as Willingdon Airfield, it started operations as an aerodrome in 1929, when it was India's second airport after the Juhu Aerodrome in Mumbai and Delhi's only airport. It was used extensively during the World War II as it was part of the South Atlantic air ferry route, and later during Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Once situated on the edge of Lutyens' Delhi, today, it has the entire city of New Delhi around it. It remained the city's main airport till 1962, when operation shifted to Palam Airport completely by the late 1960s, as it could not support the new bigger aircraft such as jet aircraft.
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