Ozar Airport

Ozar Airport is located at Ozar, northeast of the city of Nashik, Maharashtra, India. It is owned by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, which uses the airport primarily to develop, test and build aircraft for the Indian Armed Forces. It is home to a maintenance station of the Indian Air Force and also supports wide body commercial cargo services. A new passenger terminal was inaugurated on March 3, 2014.HistoryThe airfield was built in 1964, when the Aircraft Division, Nashik, commenced licence manufacture of the MiG-21FL. Other aircraft built here include MiG-21M, MiG-21 BIS, MiG-27 M, Su 30 MKI aircraft. Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) announced the launch of commercial air cargo operations from Ozar airport on 20 September 2011. The cargo services is being managed by HALCON, a joint working group between HAL, state-run Container Corporation (Concor) and Clarion Solutions. The airport is capable of handling large aircraft like the Antonov AN-124s after having creating additional parking space and medical facilities. Clarion Solutions will be the cargo terminal operator.In 2011, HAL signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Maharashtra for a Rs 40 crore upgrade of Ozar airport. The State government will pay Rs 74 crore of the terminal project cost of Rs 84 crore and HAL will fund the remaining Rs 10 crore. After coming on the DGCA's air map, HAL is now in the process of appointing a private company to operate, develop, maintain and manage the airport terminal at Ozar on revenue sharing basis.