Thoise Air Force Station

Thoise
Village
Minister of Defence Nirmala Sitharaman at Thoise in 2017
Thoise Location in Ladakh, India Thoise Thoise (India)
Coordinates: 34.65°N 77.38°E / 34.65; 77.38
Country	India
Union Territory	Ladakh
District	Nubra
Tehsil	Diskit
Elevation	3,070 m (10,070 ft)
Languages
• Spoken	Hindi, Ladakhi, Urdu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	194401

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Thoise or Thoise Air Force Station is a military airfield (ICAO: VI57) and small village in Nubra region of Ladakh, India, occupying the only large piece of flat land in the area. The airstrip is a critical facility enabling a quick inflow of men and material from the Indian interior to Siachen, a glacier, helipad and battleground near the Actual Ground Position Line between India and Pakistan.

Thoise is nearly 16 km from Hundar, 25 km from Diskit, and the road further leads to Turtuk which lies near the India-Pakistan Line of Control (LoC). It is about 160 km from Leh, the capital of Ladakh. Thoise is reached via the Khardung La mountain pass, one of the world's highest roads used by motor vehicles.

The Ladakh administration plans to launch civilian flights from the airport by December 2026, after refurbishing the existing chartered-flight terminal at the airport. The Indian Air Force has also approved the allotment of 5 acres of land to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for construction of a new civil terminal.