Saturday, July 30, 2011: The city Corporation has come up with a name to be bestowed on the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport and wants the airport to be named after Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, the last ruler of the erstwhile Travancore kingdom.
A resolution approved in the Corporation Council that met here on Friday, which had been introduced by Welfare Standing Committee Chairman Palayam Rajan, decided to ask the Department of Aviation and the Chief Minister to endorse the suggestion.
The resolution said that it was Sree Chithira Thirunal who gave acres of land free of cost to establish an airport in Thiruvananthapuram, when air travel was only shaping up here.
The airport was established in 1932 as part of the Royal Flying Club under the initiative of Colonel Goda Varma Raja, husband of H.H Queen Karthika Thirunal of Travancore Kingdom. Col G.V Raja, being a trained pilot, felt the need an airport to accommodate Travancore in the aviation map of India.
In 1935, on royal patronage of H.H Maharaja Chitra Thirunal, Tata Airlines made its maiden flight to the airport using DH.83 Fox Moth aircraft under command of India’s first pilot Nevill Vintcent, carried two passengers Jamshed Navoroji, a Tata company official, and Kanchi Dwarakadas, commercial agent of Travancore to Bombay Presidency along with a special mail from Viceroy of British India, Lord Willingdon wishing birthday greetings to the Maharaja.
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