Behind the brightly painted but unremarkable façade of the 83-year-old Delhi Flying Club lies the Capital’s rich aviation history. Sidhartha Roy reports.

A vast expanse of grassy fields, a few tents and the Safdarjung Tomb in the background — that is how the Willingdon airfield, New Delhi’s first ‘airport’ looked like when the first airmail flight landed here on November 30, 1918.