Tejgaon Airport (ICAO: VGTJ) in Dhaka, Bangladesh served as the country's sole international airport prior to the construction of Zia International Airport.
Following the transfer of civilian flights to the newly built Zia International Airport in 1981, Tejgaon was taken under the control of the Bangladesh Air Force.
The British had built military airstrips near Tejgaon during the Second World War for operating warplanes towards the war fields of...
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Tejgaon Airport (ICAO: VGTJ) in Dhaka, Bangladesh served as the country's sole international airport prior to the construction of Zia International Airport.
Following the transfer of civilian flights to the newly built Zia International Airport in 1981, Tejgaon was taken under the control of the Bangladesh Air Force.
The British had built military airstrips near Tejgaon during the Second World War for operating warplanes towards the war fields of Kohima and other Burmese war threats. Tejgaon Airport became the first airport to operate civil aviation in the then East Pakistan and it was also a station of the Pakistan Air Force. A number of other British built military airstrips in Bangladesh territory were also converted into civil airports – some during Pakistan period and some after Liberation. A few others were converted to STOL (Short Take-off and Landing) ports some years ago. And some are still left alone. The airstrips not yet converted to any civil airport of any kind are at...
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