Coordinates: | 29.2333°N 81.2167°W |
Sanphebagar Airport | |
Iata: | FEB |
Icao: | VNSR |
Pushpin Map: | Nepal |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Nepal |
Pushpin Label: | Sanphebagar Airport |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | Government of Nepal |
Operator: | Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal |
City-Served: | Sanphebagar, Nepal |
Elevation-F: | 1955 |
R1-Number: | 2/20 |
R1-Length-M: | 530 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt[1] |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
Footnotes: | Source:[2] [3] [4] |
Sanphebagar Airport is a domestic airport located in Sanphebagar serving Achham District, a district in Sudurpashchim Province in Nepal.
In 1967, the Airport was first constructed only having a Grass/Clay runway. It came into operation in 1975.
In February 2002, the terminal building and the airport's Control tower[5] was destroyed in a Maoist attack. It was restored and upgraded and reopened for operations in 2018.[6] [7]
The airport resides at an elevation of 1955feet above mean sea level. Since the renovation of the airport in 2018, the airport has one asphalt runway which is 530m (1,740feet) in length.[4]
Currently, there are no scheduled services to and from Sanphebagar Airport. In 2019, Nepal Airlines briefly operated routes to Nepalgunj.[8]