Pardubice airport
| Letiště Pardubice Pardubice Airport |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LKPD |
| IATA code | PED |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 226 m (741 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 3 km southwest of Pardubice |
| Street |
 
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| Local transport | bus |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1995 (civil) |
| operator | East Bohemian Airport as |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 102,045 (2019) |
| Air freight | 183 t (2018) |
| Flight movements |
1,665 (2018) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 09/27 | 2500 m × 75 m concrete |
The Pardubice Airport is a military and of civilian airport in the eastern Bohemian town of Pardubice in the Czech Republic .
Location and transport links
The airport is located southwest of the city in the Popkovice district and was built as a military facility. The airport is owned by the Czech Ministry of Defense .
North of the airport extends the highway S 2 , east of the airport extends the highway S 37. The airport is buses in the public transport integrated, several lines connect the airport with the station of Pardubice.
history
On April 16, 1910 Jan Kašpar completed the first ever powered flight in the Czech Republic with a Bleriot XI on the Pardubice parade ground at the time. The first Czech aviation club, Aviatické družstvo Pardubice , was founded the following year, but it had to cease its flight operations at the beginning of the First World War.
After the end of the war, there were occasional flying exhibitions here, and from the late 1920s it was used to train pilots. In 1936 and 1937, the area was expanded into a civil airport.
Second World War
During the occupation of the Czech Republic by Nazi Germany, the place was used for basic and advanced aviation training for future attack pilots of the German Air Force . Between September 1939 and January 1944, Pardubitz was the base of the 32 pilot training regiment and the pilot school A / B and A 32. Then the Ju 87 and Fw 190 from Staff and III were located here for a year . Group of the battle squadron 151 , a retraining association.
In the last year of the war, he also served operational units in the Air Force. In the summer of 1944, parts of the Battle Wing 3 , equipped with Fw 190, and from October 1944 to January 1945 the Bf 109G of the Kampfgeschwader 30 were located here. During this time, the field was the target of an attack by the Eighth Air Force of the United States on August 24, 1944 Army Air Forces . During the last months of the war, parts of the Schlachtgeschwader 77 with their Fw 190F were stationed here.
Cold War
After the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the socialist era, Pardubice became an exclusively military airfield. For this purpose, a 2.5 km jettable runway was built. It became the location of the air forces of the Czechoslovak People's Army . The 4th and 18th fighter squadrons were located here ( 4th and 18th stíhací letecký pluk ). These formations initially flew piston engine fighters of the Avia S-199 type and later mainly Soviet jet fighters of the MiG-15 , MiG-19S / PM and MiG-21F types . Pardubice was also the location of the 47th Reconnaissance Squadron, 47th průzkumný letecký pluk , which was equipped with MiG-21R, Il-28L , Il-14 and Su-22 , among others . From 1986 the 30th Attack Pilot Regimet , 30th Bitevný Letecký Pluk (BiLP), equipped with Su-25K / UBK , was located here .
After the end of the Cold War
With the establishment of the Czech Republic in 1993, Pardubice became a military airfield of the Air Forces of the Czech Republic with the Su-25 and some L-39ZA of the 30th BiLP lying here. This year, East Bohemian Airport as was founded by investors with the aim of opening the military airfield in Pardubice to civil traffic.
The following spring, the air forces moved their jets to Náměšť nad Oslavou and that year a feasibility study for civil use was carried out and negotiations with the Ministry of Defense began. These negotiations led to sporadic civil flights, which, however, first had to be approved by the military.
The military initially used the place between 1994 and 2003 as the 34th training base, 34th základna školního letectva . Subsequently, regular military flight operations were discontinued and the base has only been used for maintenance and logistics since then.
In 1995 East Bohemian Airport as received permission to use the airport for civil purposes. In the same year, the handling of civil flights was also approved by the Czech Civil Aviation Authority. The civil part of the airport was officially opened on May 18, 1995. In the summer of 1996, a Czech tour operator started the first charter flights. From this year instrument flights can also be carried out.
In 2002 the city of Pardubice became the sole shareholder of East Bohemian Airport as. In 2005, an Antonov An-124 landed at the airport for the first time . Construction of a new airport terminal began at the end of 2016 . The terminal was completed in mid-January 2018 and commissioning took place at the end of the month.
Since opening, the airport has mainly been used for general aviation . Charter flights take place primarily in the summer season, but there has not yet been any significant scheduled air traffic . A large part of the passenger volume is accounted for by flights to Russia .
Traffic figures
| year | Passengers | Flight movements | Air freight (t) |
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| 2019 | 102.045 | ||
| 2018 | 147,572 | 1,665 | 183 |
| 2017 | 88,490 | 1,687 | 265 |
| 2016 | 31,174 | 1,234 | 142 |
| 2015 | 59,260 | 1,374 | 159 |
| 2014 | 150.056 | 2,188 | 101 |
| 2013 | 184.140 | 2,870 | 208 |
| 2012 | 125.008 | 2,333 | 603 |
| 2011 | 65,246 | 1,826 | 252 |
| 2010 | 62,302 | 1,236 | 239 |
| 2009 | 49.032 | 994 | 344 |
| 2008 | 86,863 | 1,560 | 601 |
| 2007 | 93,659 | 1,502 | 894 |
| 2006 | 71,655 | 1,302 | 180 |
| 2005 | 49.165 | 912 | 350 |
| 2004 | 46,999 | 912 | 306 |
| 2003 | 28,392 | 712 | 72 |
| 2002 | 3,872 | 448 | 266 |
| 2001 | 1,814 | 424 | 166 |
| 2000 | 6,087 | 412 | 122 |
Web links
- Airport website (English / Czech)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Press Release. Airport-Pardubice.cz, January 14, 2020, accessed on March 2, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b c d Statistics. Airport-Pardubice.cz, accessed on March 2, 2020 (Czech).
- ↑ Traveling by car. Airport-Pardubice.cz, accessed on January 23, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Public transport. Airport-Pardubice.cz, accessed on January 23, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Terminal 2 month after the start of construction. Airport-Pardubice.cz, August 2, 2016, accessed on May 22, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Nový letištní terminál se Tesi na první cestující. Airport-Pardubice.cz, January 16, 2018, accessed on January 23, 2018 (Czech).
- ^ New terminal. Airport-Pardubice.cz, accessed on January 9, 2019 (English).
- ^ History. Airport-Pardubice.cz, accessed on February 3, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Scheduled flights. Airport-Pardubice.cz, accessed on January 23, 2018 (English).
- ↑ a b Statistics. Airport-Pardubice.cz, accessed on April 11, 2019 (English).
