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Rupsi airport in Assam, built for warplanes in 1939 for World War-II , became operational on May 8, 2021 with the landing of a commercial flight of the Flybig airline.
- Rupsi airport near Gauripur, about 15 km from district headquarters Dhubri, was one of South Asia’s largest airports with a 1.8 km runway used by Allied aircraft for supplying arms, manpower and ammunition to forces in Burma and China during World War II.
- Rupsi is Assam’s 7th airport and 15th in the northeast including Pakyong in Sikkim. Commercial flights were allowed later.
- The airport was constructed by the British during World War II to supply arms, manpower and ammunition to the Allied forces. The US Air Force had used it in the China-Burma-India theater.
