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Shamshernagar Airport (IATA: ZHM, ICAO: VGSH) is a public use airport 17 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. It is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB). Due to the short length of the runway it is restricted to STOL aircraft. As of July 2015, no scheduled passenger flights serve the airport, but civil air operations are allowed with prior approval.

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  • Aéroport de Shamshernagar (fr)
  • Port lotniczy Shamshernagar (pl)
  • Shamshernagar Airport (en)
  • Shamshernagar Airport (sv)
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  • L'aéroport de Shamshernagar est un aéroport situé au Bangladesh. (fr)
  • Port lotniczy Shamshernagar (IATA: ZGM, ICAO: VGSH) – port lotniczy położony w miejscowości , w Bangladeszu. (pl)
  • Shamshernagar Airport (IATA: ZHM, ICAO: VGSH) is a public use airport 17 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. It is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB). Due to the short length of the runway it is restricted to STOL aircraft. As of July 2015, no scheduled passenger flights serve the airport, but civil air operations are allowed with prior approval. (en)
  • Shamshernagar Airport (engelska: Shamshernagar STOLport) är en flygplats i Bangladesh. Den ligger i den östra delen av landet, 170 km nordost om huvudstaden Dhaka. Shamshernagar Airport ligger 23 meter över havet. Terrängen runt Shamshernagar Airport är mycket platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är 320 meter över havet, 19,9 km öster om Shamshernagar Airport. Närmaste större samhälle är Maulavi Bāzār, 13,9 km nordväst om Shamshernagar Airport. (sv)
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  • Shamshernagar Airport (en)
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  • Shamshernagar Airport (en)
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  • Source: Landings.com (en)
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  • Location of Shamshernagar Airport in Bangladesh (en)
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  • Shamshernagar Airport (IATA: ZHM, ICAO: VGSH) is a public use airport 17 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. It is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB). Due to the short length of the runway it is restricted to STOL aircraft. As of July 2015, no scheduled passenger flights serve the airport, but civil air operations are allowed with prior approval. During WWII, Shamshernagar was a major hub for flights “Over the Hump” from what was then British India to China. The flights were dangerous, as on March 11, 1945, when a C-109 cargo plane departed Shamshernager for Chengdu, China and soon disappeared. Material stockpiled by the US at Shamshernager (but never used) included chemical weapons, specifically 18 rail wagon loads of 1000-pound bombs filled with cyanogen chloride. The was based at Shamshernagar in the final months of World War II. On 31 December 1970, a Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 of Pakistan International Airlines on approach to Shamshernagar crash-landed short of the runway, turned over to the right, and burned. Seven of the 31 passengers on board died. According to East Pakistan Air Operations, 1971, during the Bangladesh Liberation War, Shamshernagar was the base of the first fighting formation of what would become the Bangladesh Air Force: a DC-3 Dakota, a DHC-3 Otter, and an Alouette III helicopter together known as Kilo Force. According to CAAB, currently airlines do not serve Shamshernagar because demand is too low for a route to be commercially viable without smaller aircraft than those the airlines operate. The Independent reported a senior CAAB official as saying, "If the airlines are not interested in using our airports, we can't force them to." The same official said a government subsidy could convince airlines to use Shamshernagar. As it is now, airport staff are paid without having to work. (en)
  • L'aéroport de Shamshernagar est un aéroport situé au Bangladesh. (fr)
  • Port lotniczy Shamshernagar (IATA: ZGM, ICAO: VGSH) – port lotniczy położony w miejscowości , w Bangladeszu. (pl)
  • Shamshernagar Airport (engelska: Shamshernagar STOLport) är en flygplats i Bangladesh. Den ligger i den östra delen av landet, 170 km nordost om huvudstaden Dhaka. Shamshernagar Airport ligger 23 meter över havet. Terrängen runt Shamshernagar Airport är mycket platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är 320 meter över havet, 19,9 km öster om Shamshernagar Airport. Närmaste större samhälle är Maulavi Bāzār, 13,9 km nordväst om Shamshernagar Airport. I omgivningarna runt Shamshernagar Airport växer huvudsakligen savannskog. Runt Shamshernagar Airport är det tätbefolkat, med 570 invånare per kvadratkilometer. Klimatet i området är fuktigt och subtropiskt. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är 22 °C. Den varmaste månaden är april, då medeltemperaturen är 26 °C, och den kallaste är januari, med 18 °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är 3 295 millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juni, med i genomsnitt 729 mm nederbörd, och den torraste är december, med 4 mm nederbörd. (sv)
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