Walton Airport 4

A dedicated, philanthropists Group of Aviators founded, The Punjab Flying Club in 1930 and later in 1932 named it the Northern Indian Flying Club and took 157.87 Acres of land initially from the Forest Department in Village Rakh Kot Lakhpat and village Bhabara . Forest trees were cleared to construct a green airfield from where they started their flight operations. Subsequently converted green airfield into a Concrete Runway. Not only this Aerodrome was used in the 2nd World War by the Army but for civilian aircrafts as well.
Government of Punjab transferred an area of 259.53 acres of State Land to the then Government of India, Aviation Department for a period of 50 years for the purpose of Civil Aerodrome ( Known as Walton Aerodrome).
The Walton Aerodrome has its Historical Value because at the time of partition, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah landed first time on this Aerodrome in 1947 and remained under operation as passenger Airport uptill early 1960 and subsequently shifted to Lahore Airport , now as Allama Iqbal Airport secondly so many Aviators are operating here which are the best Training Institutes for commercial pilots in Pakistan . Operation of the Aviators are being maintained from dawn to dusk. Department of Plant Protection (DPP) operates from Walton Aerodrome for agricultural spray with their aircrafts in the country . The length of Runway is 6200’ and 150’ width . Due to General Aviators Fire Station and ATC along with AIWA Type 2287 2VHF Channels are being maintained thoroughly from dawn to dusk. Presently about 2000 flights are operating per Month by aviators at Walton Aerodrome Lahore. Hence Walton Aerodrome possess the value of “National Heritage”