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Kolana Airport

Airport of Rajasthan, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Kolana Airport is an airport serving Jhalawar in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is owned and operated by the State Government of Rajasthan. The airport is spread over 23.5 acres, has a 1710 metre long runway and a 2340 square metre apron for two small aircraft. The terminal building covers 466 Square metres.

Editorial summary

“Kolana Airport” enters the record as airport of Rajasthan, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kolana, Airport and Rajasthan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1710—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kolana, Airport and Rajasthan.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kolana Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kolana, Airport and Rajasthan provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1710.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kolana Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kolana Airport primary sources, Kolana Airport archive and Kolana research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kolana Airport”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Kolana Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.