Gautam Buddha International Airport

Gautam Buddha International Airport (BWA/VNBW) is in Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa), NP, 109 m above sea level. It has 1 runway and the longest is 3,000 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
BWA · VNBW
City
Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa)
Country
NP
Coordinates
27.5046, 83.4104
Elevation
109 m · 358 ft
Time zone
Asia/Kathmandu
Local time now
20:31
Airspace
Kathmandu
Departures observed
11 · 6 arrivals

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (11)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
10:33BHA852AT75 · 9N-AOG
12:19DH8D · 9N-AOL
12:50NYT874AT75 · 9N-AMZ
14:32BHA856AT75 · 9N-ANZ
14:38DH8D · 9N-AOL
16:23BHA858AT75 · 9N-AJL
17:29BHA802AT75 · 9N-ANZ
17:37BHA1852AT75 · 9N-ANW
20:39NYT880AT75 · 9N-AMN
20:50BHA803AT75 · 9N-AMD
21:05NYT877AT75 · 9N-AMZ

Landed (6)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
12:08NYT873AT75 · 9N-AMZNP-0019
13:47BHA855AT75 · 9N-ANZKTM
13:52DH8D · 9N-AOL
15:39BHA281AT75 · 9N-AJL
16:48BHA801AT75 · 9N-ANZ
16:53BHA1851AT75 · 9N-ANW

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (1)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
10/283,000 m · 9,843 ftasphalt99° · 279°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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