Juhu Aerodrome
The Juhu Aerodrome, VAJJ, located in Mumbai, was India's first civil aviation airport opening in 1932. J.R.D. Tata, the father of aviation in India made India's maiden voyage from Juhu airport to Karachi (later to become Pakistan). The airport served as the city's sole airport till the Santacruz Airport took over.
Juhu has two intersecting runways, (08-26, 3749 ft/1143 m; 16-34, 2400 ft/732 m). It hosts a flying club with several executive and light aircraft, gliders, and a heliport to ferry ONGC personnel by Pavan Hans to offshore oil rigs at Bombay High. The airfield is located at Juhu, an upmarket residential suburb of northwest Bombay flanking the city's famed Juhu Beach along the Arabian sea.