L'aéroport Kushok-Bakula-Rimpoché (bengali: কুশোক বকুল কম্পোচি বিমানবন্দর, anglais: Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport) (code IATA: IXL•code OACI: VILH) est un aéroport national d'Inde, situé à Leh, dans l'État du Jammu-et-Cachemire.
La construction en 1948 de l'aéroport Kushok-Bakula-Rimpoché[1], l’un des aérodromes les plus hauts du monde, a été réalisée par Sonam Narboo qui reçut le Padma Shri en 1961[2].
En 2005, l'aéroport a été renommé Kushok Bakula Rinpoché, mort en 2003, par le premier ministre Manmohan Singh.
An Incredible War: IAF in Kashmir War 1947-1948: IAF in Kashmir War 1947-1948, p. 119, p. 135
Verinder Grover, The Story of Kashmir, 1995 "February 2 Sonam Narboo, Works and Power Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, died. A distinguished engineer, Mr. Narboo was 71. He had served as a Chief Engineer in Jammu and Kashmir as well as the Border Roads Organization. He was India's Ambassador to Mongolia for about four years before he joined Sheikh Abdullah's Cabinet in 1975. For his feats in engineering, which included construction of Leh airfield at one of the highest airfields in the world, Mr. Narboo was awarded Padma Shri."
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