Lalmonirhat Airport

Lalmonirhat Airport

BAF Station Lalmonirhat or commonly known as Lalmonirhat Airport is a one of nine Bangladeshi Air Force bases is located near Lalmonirhat, at the north side border of Bangladesh. Once, it was the second biggest and largest airport in Asia. It was built in 1931 as a military airbase. During the Second World War (1939–1945), the Allied Forces used it as a forward airbase for its operations in Burma and other countries of southeast Asia. Presently, Lalmonirhat aerodrome is under the possession of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF). Now, the airport has been given to Bangladesh Aerospace and Aviation University to make it a permanent campus.