Agra Airport
airport in India
Agra Airport (IATA: AGR, ICAO: VIAG), also known as Kheria Airport, is a dual use airport with Indian Air Force base and a domestic airport civil enclave serving the Agra city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
To meet the growing demands and traffic, the airport will get a new terminal building that will be much larger than the existing terminal, leading to enhanced connectivity and socio-economic growth in Agra and the rest of the state. Its foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October 2024. Construction is set to begin by the second half of 2025, and is slated to be completed by the end of 2027 or by the first half of 2028.
Background
Etymology
The airportis named after the eponymous city Agra. The airport has been proposed to be renamed after Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, a renowned independence activist, social reformer and leader.
History
The station was opened during the World War II as Royal Air Forces Station Agra and had a number of flying units located there. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command established a major maintenance and supply facility at Agra, named "Agra Air Depot". The 3rd Air Depot Group serviced a wide variety of fighter, bomber and transport aircraft being used by Tenth Air Force and the Allied ground forces in Burma and Fourteenth Air Force in China. The depot stockpiled large amounts of material for shipment over the Himalayan Mountains ("The Hump") by Air Transport Command cargo aircraft flying to forward airfields in China.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Agra Airport” as airport in India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as airport in India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1849321. Authority coordinates are 27.162, 77.971. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024, 2025, 2027 and 2028.
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