Pančevo Airport

Pančevo Airport
Аеродром Панчево
Aerodrom Pančevo
IATA: noneICAO: LYPA
Summary
Airport type Civil
Serves Pančevo, Serbia
Elevation AMSL 77 m / 253 ft
Coordinates 44°54′08″N 020°38′07″E / 44.90222°N 20.63528°E / 44.90222; 20.63528Coordinates: 44°54′08″N 020°38′07″E / 44.90222°N 20.63528°E / 44.90222; 20.63528
Map
LYPA

Location of the airport in Serbia

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13L/31R 1,000 3,281 Grass

Pančevo Airport (Аеродром Панчево or Aerodrom Pančevo) (ICAO: LYPA) is an airport near the city of Pančevo, Serbia near Belgrade. The airport is mostly used for general aviation operations. It has a single grass runway 1,000 metres long and 60 metres wide.

The airport is also used by Utva Aviation Industry, a manufacturer of light sporting and training aircraft also located in Pančevo, for testing its aircraft.

History

On March 15, 1923, aircraft of the Franko-Rumen company started operations from Pančevo airport. A few days later on March 25, services between Paris and Istanbul via Pančevo commenced, the first international flights to or from Belgrade. On September 9 the same year, the first aircraft took off on a scheduled service from Belgrade to Bucharest. This was also the first commercial night flight in the history of aviation. CFRNA (Compagnie franco-roumaine de navigation aérienne) decided that flying at night was the only way for its aircraft operating on the Paris-Belgrade-Bucharest-Istanbul service to beat the famous Orient Express train to Istanbul.

Franco-Roumaine changed its name to CIDNA (Compagnie internationale de navigation aérienne) in 1925, which used Pančevo Airport until May 1927.

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