INS Hansa
Gate of INS Hansa
IATA:none ICAO:VOGO
Summary
Airport type	Naval Air Station
Operator	Indian Navy
Location	Dabolim,Goa,India
Elevation AMSL	184 ft / 56 m
Coordinates	15°22′51″N073°49′53″E / 15.38083°N 73.83139°E /15.38083; 73.83139
Interactive map of INS Hansa
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 08/26 11,345 3,458 Asphalt

INS Hansa, (IATA:N/A,ICAO:VOGO) is an Indiannaval air station located nearDabolim inGoa, India.^[1] It is India's biggest naval airbase.^[2] The military air base has acivil enclave, that operates asDabolim Airport.

INS Hansa was commissioned on 5 September 1961 atSulur nearCoimbatore,Tamil Nadu. It was initially co-located with theSulur Air Force Station of theIndian Air Force. It was then home toINAS 551 squadron, operatingde Havilland Vampire aircraft, as well as training establishments forHawker Sea Hawk andBreguet Alizé aircraft.^[3]After the invasion of Goa in December 1961, INS Hansa was transferred to Dabolim.In 1983, the Indian Navy began inducting theBAE Sea Harrier into service, basing training activities at Dabolim until the Harriers were retired in 2016.^[4]Now the base housesMiG-29KUBs, the tandem two-seat operational trainer variant of the carrier based MIG-29Ks. The aircraft has been inducted into the Navy with a complement of 12 MiG 29Ks that have been purchased with the aircraft carrierINS Vikramaditya (re-fitted and refurbishedAdmiral Gorshkov of the Russian Navy).

Besides the operation of the MiGs, the Navy also operatesKamov Ka-28 anti-submarine helicopters, along withIlyushin Il-38 May and TU-142M Bear aircraft. Dabolim airbase also hosts exercises by theIndian Air Force's fighter bombers and it has facilities for theIndian Coast Guard which operates a fleet of small aircraft such as Dornier 228s. The Indian Navy also carries out long rangemaritime patrols as far as theHorn of Africa from Dabolim.

The navy has an aerobatic team, based at Dabolim, called theSagar Pawan. The team comprises three Kiran aircraft which carry out aerobatic displays at various locations in the country. The team is used in one or two annual public events in Goa for flypasts of 15 to 20 minutes duration. The navy also operates anaval aviation museum near Dabolim Airport.

TheIndian Navy'sShore Based Test Facility (SBTF), which is a mock-up of the 283-metre (928 ft) INS Vikramaditya deck built on the airfield at Hansa is used to train and certify navy pilots of theMikoyan MiG-29K for operating from the aircraft carrier, and for the developmental trials of the navalHAL Tejas.^[5][6][7] This SBTF was designed by Nevskoye Design Bureau (NDB) of Russia for Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA).

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  MiG-29Ks ofINAS 303
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  P3C Orion aircraft ofJMSDF at INS Hansa
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  Test flight ofHAL Tejas Naval at INS Hansa

Over 2,000military personnel and 1,000 civilians are based at INS Hansa. It is home to 9 Indian Naval Air Squadrons (INAS).

Among the units based here are:^[8]

• INAS 300, "White Tigers", operatingMikoyan MiG-29K fighters
• INAS 303, "Black Panthers" operatingMikoyan MiG-29K fighters
• INAS 321, "Angels", operatingHAL Chetak helicopters forsearch and rescue
• INAS 322, "Hornets", operatingHAL Dhruv helicopters forsearch and rescue
• INAS 339, "Falcons", operatingKamov Ka-31 AEW helicopters
• INAS 310, "Cobras", operatingDornier 228 maritime surveillance aircraft
• INAS 552, "Xplorers", the only flight testing unit of the Indian Navy
• INAS 323, "Harrier", operatingHAL Dhruv helicopters forsearch and rescue
• INAS 316, "P8i", operatingP-8I Neptune aircraft forsurveillance

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