High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Safdarjung Airport (IATA: N/A, ICAO: VIDD) also (Safdarjung Air Force Station) is an airport in New Delhi, India, in the neighbourhood of the same name. Established during the British Raj, as Willingdon Airfield, it started operations as an airport in 1929, when was the India`s second airport and Delhi’s only airport. It was used extensively during the World War II as it was part of the South Atlantic air ferry route, and later during Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Once situated on the edge of Lutyens` Delhi, today, it was the entire city of New Delhi around it. It remained the city`s main airport till 1962, when operation shifted to Palam Airport completely by late 1960s, as it could not support the new bigger aircraft such as jet aircraft.