Airport

Dholera International Airport: construction, trials, and the operations target.

July 2026TARGETAirport

Airport reported about 80 percent complete, operations targeted for September-October 2026

After a July 2026 review by Union Civil Aviation Minister K. Ram Mohan Naidu, Dholera International Airport was reported about 80 percent complete, with operations targeted for September-October 2026 and the passenger terminal around 75 percent done.

July 2026REPORTEDAirport

Embraer and Adani reported exploring a civil-aircraft assembly line, Dholera among candidate sites

Embraer and Adani signed a memorandum of understanding, reported in July 2026, to explore a Make in India civil-aircraft final assembly line targeted around 2028, with Dholera airport among the sites under evaluation and no site finalised.

4 June 2026REPORTEDAirport

First aircraft lands at Dholera airport: an AAI calibration flight, not an opening

An Airports Authority of India calibration aircraft, VT-CNS, made the first landing on Dholera airport's 3,200 m runway on 4 June 2026, greeted with a water-cannon salute near Pipli village.