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The lit-up exterior of the new Terminal 2 at dusk, with an aircraft overhead, on the ₹15 stamp.
75 Years of Mumbai Airport
India Post issued two stamps, ₹5 and ₹15, and a ₹20 miniature sheet on 15 October 2017 for 75 years of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai. It began in 1942 as the military airfield of RAF Santacruz; after independence its hangars became the domestic and international terminals of Santacruz airport, and a new international terminal was later built at Sahar. Renamed in 1999, the airport has been run since 2006 by Mumbai International Airport Ltd, which built the new Terminal 2; by 2017 it handled 45 million passengers a year and once 935 flights in a day on a single runway. The stamps were designed by Brahm Prakash and printed by India Security Press, Nashik: 602,000 of each and 1 lakh sheets.
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