Panna Airport

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Panna Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Operator Airports Authority of India
Serves Panna
LocationPanna, India
Elevation  AMSL 1,394 ft / 425 m
Coordinates Coordinates: 24°43′05″N80°10′54″E / 24.7180°N 80.1818°E / 24.7180; 80.1818
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
17/355,0001,524Unpaved

Panna Airport is an airport that serves the town of Panna, Madhya Pradesh, India. Spread over 106 acres, it is maintained by the Airports Authority of India. [1]

The airport is listed as "non-operational", [2] part of a list of 32 such airports submitted by the then Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel to the Lok Sabha in 2009, [3] though the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan had spoken of privatising the airport in 2007. [4]

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