# Utkela Airport (UKE / VEUK)

**Utkela Airport** (IATA: UKE, ICAO: VEUK) is a medium airport in Bhawanipatna, Odisha, India. It opened on 31 Aug 2023. It has one runway, 914 m (3,000 ft) long, asphalt.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/veuk

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: UKE / VEUK
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Bhawanipatna, Odisha, India
- Opened: 31 Aug 2023 (Wikipedia)
- Elevation: 209 m / 685 ft
- Coordinates: 20.0978, 83.1833
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 914 m / 3,000 ft
- Time zone: UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkela_Airport (5 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12695425
- Weather station: VEUK
- Ident: VEUK

## Timeline

- 31 Aug 2023: Utkela Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 03/21 | 914 m / 3,000 ft | 31 m / 100 ft | Asphalt | 031° / 211° |  |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [BBI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vebs.md) Biju Patnaik International Airport · India · 275 km / 171 mi · IndiaOne Air

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from UKE, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- [IndiaOne Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/indiaone-air) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 914 m / 3,000 ft | =15,843 of 29,858 | =1,740 in Asia | =245 in IN |
| Elevation | 209 m / 685 ft | =23,708 of 43,403 | =1,338 in Asia | #163 in IN |
| Age | Opened 2023 | =14,418 of 15,079 | =827 in Asia | =80 in IN |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =22 in IN |

## Nearby airports

- [IN-0093](https://dromopedia.com/airports/in-0093.md) Vedanta Lanjigarh Airstrip · 47 km / 29 mi
- [VE36](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ve36.md) Nuagaon Airport · 54 km / 33 mi
- [IN-0283](https://dromopedia.com/airports/in-0283.md) Therubali Aerodrome · 88 km / 54 mi
- [VENP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/venp.md) Nawapara Airport · 110 km / 69 mi

## In collections

- [Shortest runways with airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/shortest-scheduled) #83

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Utkela Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utkela_Airport&oldid=1374018832), revision of 9 Sep 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/veuk/data