Darbhanga Airport
Darbhanga Airport
Darbhanga Airport (IATA: DBR, ICAO: VEDH) is a domestic airport and an Indian Air Force Station, serving Darbhanga, Bihar, India. It is located just at the outskirts of the city near the NH-527B and NH-27 highways, which pass through Darbhanga. The airport is operated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
Location
26.193°N, 85.917°E · 48 m s. n. m. (156 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
History
This airport was built by Maharaja Kameshwar Singh Bahadur of Darbhanga when he started his own private airline. It was funded by a private aviation company Darbhanga Aviation after Second World War. He purchased three former military Douglas DC3 aircraft.
Darbhanga Aviation was started in 1950 and became defunct in 1962.
During the 1962 Indo-China War, the airport was acquired by the Indian Air Force.
Airlines operating here · 3
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Darbhanga Airport (DBR). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DBR
MLA
“Darbhanga Airport (DBR).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DBR. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
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Harvard
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BibTeX
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title = {{Darbhanga Airport (DBR)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
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howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DBR}},
urldate = {2026-10-24},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-24}
}Wikipedia
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