Doti Airport | |
Iata: | SIH |
Icao: | VNDT |
Pushpin Map: | Nepal |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Nepal |
Pushpin Label: | Doti Airport |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | Government of Nepal |
Operator: | Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal |
City-Served: | Dipayal Silgadhi, Nepal |
Elevation-F: | 1,893 |
Elevation-M: | 577 |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 14/32 |
R1-Length-M: | 490 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Source:[1] |
Doti Airport, also known as Silgadhi Airport, is a domestic airport located in Dipayal Silgadhi serving Doti District, a district in Sudurpashchim Province in Nepal.[1]
The airport started operations on 24 September 1973,[1] but the runway was only blacktopped and upgraded in 2020[2] for Nepalese Rupees 50 million.[3] It was reinaugurated on 3 October 2020.[4] Scheduled flights to Dhangadhi started in 2022.[5]
The airport resides at an elevation of 1893feet above mean sea level. It has one runway which is 490m (1,610feet) in length.