Bhadrapur Airport , also known as Chandragadhi Airport, is an airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 serving Bhadrapur

Bhadrapur, Mechi

Bhadrapur is a town and municipality in Jhapa District in the Mechi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. It is known As a one of oldest municipalities of Nepal. At the time of the 2001 Nepal census it had a population of 18,145 people....

 and Chandragadhi

Chandragadhi

Chandragadhi is a town and municipality and district headquarters of Jhapa District in the Mechi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 12,259 people living in 2345 individual households....

, both towns in the Jhapa district

Jhapa District

Jhapa District, a district of Mechi Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal. The district, with Chandragadhi as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,606 km² and has a population of 688,109.-Location:...

 in the Mechi zone

Mechi Zone

Mechi and other ethnic groups like Koche and Meche, and hill castes like Bahun and Chhetris.Mechi is divided into four districts:*Ilam District*Jhapa District*Panchthar District*Taplejung District...

 in Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

 of 300 feet (91 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 designated 10/28 with an asphalt

Asphalt

Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...

 surface measuring 1209 by 29 m (3,966.5 by 95.1 ).
The duration taken by road from Darjeeling to the airport is about 3 hours via the Darjeeling-Pashupatinagar-Ilam route.
A few formalities are required at Pashupatinagar after which you can travel to the airport with ease.

Airlines and destinations