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List of Indian Air Force Bases

I just added this list to MILHIST. I'd like to know how it can be improved, in any and all respects. Specifically, I'd like an opinion on what information can be added, and any way to improve the page itself, in terms of syntax. Thanks. ^T/_@ Sniperz11 _edits^sign 01:40, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Buckshot06

First and most important thing you could do is add some sources. Is this from official data? Spotters? Bloggers? Be good to make that clear. Buckshot06 (talk) 03:01, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Roger Davies

Very promising indeed though I agree entirely with Buckshot about sources as the first step.

Other thoughts? Some pictures would be good. Perhaps as a gallery? I think a wikilinked paragraph describing each of the air commands would be good. The states should be wikilinked.

The list would probably be more useful as one single sortable list. This has many advantages over the current lists. You can sort by base name, command, state etc. It's much easier to find a base in sorting a single 60-base list alphabetically than by going through five separate lists. If you wanted to sort by Lat/Lon, you could do that too. I've dummied this up quickly with a couple of bases from each of your sub-lists with background colours for each command: the colour choice could be improved considerably (a comprehensive colour list is here). There's also a neat template {{coord}} which links to maps: I've done the first couple as examples.

All this, by the way, is far less work than it seems :)) --ROGER DAVIES ^talk

Base	Command	ICAO	Runway	Elevation	Lat/Lon	State
Adampur AFS	WAC	VIAX	13/31	775 ft. / 236 mts	39°25′59.35″N 75°45′38.85″E	Punjab
Ambala AFS	WAC	VIAM	12L/30R 12R/30L	900 ft. / 274 mts.	30°22′07.16″N 76°48′54.21″E	Haryana
Amritsar AFS	WAC	VIAR	16/34	755 ft. / 230 mts.	31° 42' 27.95" N 74° 47' 57.25" E	Punjab
Agartala AFS	EAC	VEAT	18/36	48 ft. / 14 mts.	23° 53' 20.90" N 91° 14' 27.90" E	Tripura
Baghdogra AFS	EAC	VEBD	18/36	412 ft. / 125 mts.	26° 40' 53.26" N 88° 19' 41.21" E	West Bengal
Barapani AFS Shillong	EAC	VEBI	04/22	2910 ft. / 886 mts.	25° 42' 06.10" N 91° 58' 41.45" E	Meghalaya
Agra AFS	CAC	VIAG	05/23 12/30	551 ft. 167 mts.	27° 09' 20.99" N 077° 57' 39.21" E	Uttar Pradesh
Bakshi Ka Talab AFS near Lucknow	CAC	VIBL	09/27	385 ft./ 117 mts.	26° 59' 18.40" N 80° 53' 35.10" E	Uttar Pradesh
Bamrauli AFS Allahabad	CAC	VIAL	06/24 12/30	322 ft./ 98 mts.	25° 26' 20.99" N 81° 44' 03.00" E	Uttar Pradesh
Begumpet AFS Hyderabad	SAC	VOHY	09/27 14/32	1,741 ft. /531 mts.	17° 27' 08.70" N 78° 27' 40.00" E	Andhra Pradesh
Bidar AFS	SAC	VOBR	02/20 08/26	2,178 ft. /663 mts.	17° 54' 28.41" N 77° 29' 09.03" E	Karnataka
Car Nicobar AFS	SAC	VOCX	02/20	42 ft.s / 13 mts.	09° 09' 11.51" N 92° 49' 09.81" E	Nicobar Islands
Bhuj AFS	SWAC	VABJ	05/23	268 ft./82 mts.	23° 17' 16.18" N 69° 40' 12.53" E	Gujarat
Gandhinagar AFS Ahmedabad	SWAC	VAAH	10/28 14/32	189 ft. 58 mts.	23° 04' 29.05" N 72° 37' 54.30" E	Gujarat
Jaisalmer AFS	SWAC	VIJR	04/22	887 ft. / 270 mts.	26° 53' 21.83" N 70° 51' 52.87" E	Rajasthan

Askari Mark

Some additional comments to those points already made:

I like Roger’s suggestion of a sortable list. Although a list, it would seriously benefit from a graphic (map) for each Air Command. Intro should start with a statement about the subject of the list, which is airbases, not commands. The Intl. Air Command would actually be an eighth command – on top of the five listed and the other two which are implied to not have an airbase of their own (which fact should be made explicit). Since lists are more for navigational purposes, it might be a good idea to expand the tables to include the flying units currently based there.

Considering the small number of IN airbases, it might be a good idea to refocus this list on Indian military airbases, thereby capturing all of them in one list. Consideration should also be given to a section including no longer active airbases. (I would not necessarily encourage including former units for these, since the squadrons have often moved around.) Askari Mark (Talk) 18:47, 4 February 2008 (UTC)