Agartala airport renamed as Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya airport. Agartala Airport ( IATA : IXA , ICAO : VEAT ) is a domestic airport located 12 kilometres (7 miles) northwest of the city of Agartala , the capital of the state of Tripura in India . It is administered by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). [4] It is the second busiest airport in northeast India after Guwahati and is proposed to be upgraded as an international airport. The airport was designed and built in 1942 by the Maharaja of Tripura Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur . It had one primary runway, 05/23, which is now used as a taxiway to Runway 18/36. During World War II , the airport was used by the 4th Combat Cargo Group (4th CCG) of the United States Army Air Forces Tenth Air Force ,...