Tejgaon

  Early 1943 to present

  Bangladesh

CITY: Dhaka

IATA/ICAO CODES: --- / VGTJ

OTHER NAMES: Tejgaon, Tezgaon, RAF Dainodda, BAF Base Bashar

The British started building a a Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) station in the Tejgaon suburb of Dhaka in 1941, to operate warplanes towards the battlefields of Kohima and other Burmese war threats. The base was named RAF Dainodda, and the first RIAF light fighter landed on the still under?construction runway of Tejgaon at the beginning of 1943.

From March 1944, the airfield was also used by the Air Transport Command's India-China Wing.

After the war and the partition of India in 1947, Tejgaon became East Pakistan's, and later Bangladesh's only civilian airport. In 1981, all airline traffic was diverted to the new Dhaka International Airport and Tejgaon was taken under the control of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) as Base Bashar.

1346^th AAF Base Unit (Tezgaon)

Air Transport Command India-China Wing Station 3 (March 1944 - August 1944)

• Curtiss C-46A-20-CU Commando: 41-24684
• Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando: 42-60948, 42-61000
• Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando: 42-107375