VGLM Lalmonirhat Airport IFR

  • Name
    Lalmonirhat Airport
  • ICAO / GPS
    VGLM / VGLM
  • Type
  • Region
  • Timezone
    4:25 am (BST)
  • Municipality
    Lalmonirhat
  • Coordinates
    25° 53′ 15″ N 89° 25′ 52″ E
  • Elevation
    106 ft (32 m MSL)

About Lalmonirhat Airport

Lalmonirhat Airport (ICAO: VGLM) is located near Lalmonirhat, at the north side border of Bangladesh. Now, the airport given to Bangladesh Aerospace and Aviation University to make it a permanent campus. 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 (now Myanmar) and other countries of southeast Asia. Presently, Lalmonirhat aerodrome is under the possession of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF). Once, it was the second biggest and largest airport in Asia.

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