Pančevo Airport

Airport

Pančevo Airport

Аеродром Панчево

Aerodrom Pančevo

* IATA: none
* ICAO: 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; 20.63528
Map

LYPA

Location of the airport in Serbia

Runways
| Direction | Length  | Surface

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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

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On 15 March 1923, aircraft of the Franko-Rumen company started operations from Pančevo airport. A few days later on 25 March, services between Paris and Istanbul via Pančevo commenced, the first international flights to or from Belgrade. On 9 September 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.

## See also

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* List of airports in Serbia

## References

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## External links

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* Pančevo airport information (PDF)

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Airports in Serbia

International|

* Belgrade-Nikola Tesla
* Kraljevo-Morava
* Niš-Constantine the Great

Unscheduled|

* Bor
* Užice-Ponikve

Military|

* Batajnica
* Kovin
* Lađevci
* Niš
* Sombor
* Sjenica

Training|

* Pančevo
* Vršac

Other|

* Bela Crkva
* Belgrade-Lisičji Jarak
* Čačak-Preljina
* Jagodina
* Kikinda
* Požarevac-Kostolac
* Kraljevo-Brege
* Kruševac-Rosulje
* Leskovac-Mira
* Novi Sad
* Paraćin
* Pranjani-Halyard
* Belgrade-Progar
* Smederevo
* Smederevska Palanka
* Sremska Mitrovica
* Subotica
* Trstenik
* Valjevo
* Zemun Polje
* Zrenjanin

Proposed|

* Silver Lake

Former|

* Leskovac-Bojnik
* Jugovićevo [sr]
* Knjaževac
* Požarevac

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