Warsaw Radom Airport

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Airport Warsaw-Radom
Port lotniczy Warsaw-Radom
Warsaw Radom Airport
42 Baza Lotnictwa Szkolnego
Radom Airport Logo - English.svg
The airport passenger terminal
Characteristics
ICAO code EPRA
IATA code RDO
Coordinates

51 ° 23 '20 "  N , 21 ° 12' 42"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '20 "  N , 21 ° 12' 42"  E
Height above MSL 190 m (623  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 3 km east of Radom
Street D9 D12
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening May 2014
(civil)
operator Port Lotniczy Radom SA
surface 393.5 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 9,903 (2017)
Air freight 0 t (2017)
Flight
movements 		480 (2017)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		550,000
Start-and runway
07/25 2000 m × 45 m
asphalt / concrete

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The Warsaw-Radom Airport ( Polish : Port lotniczy Warsaw-Radom ) is the regional airport of the city Radom in the province Mazowieckie in Poland . It is used in parallel by the Polish Air Force , which uses the 42 Baza Lotnictwa Szkolnego for pilot training.

Location and transport links

The airport is located about three kilometers east of the center of Radom in the Sadków district. The junction on the common route of Droga krajowa 9 and 12 is only around 150 meters west of the airport. In addition, Europastraße 77 runs at the other end of the city of Radom, between five and six kilometers west of the airport.

Problematic for Radom-Sadków Airport is its proximity to the largest airport in Poland, Warsaw Chopin Airport . It is only around 88 kilometers north and can be reached within one and a half hours by car. Lublin , Łódź and Warsaw-Modlin airports can also be reached within two and a half hours .

In local public transport there are bus connections to the bus station and the main train station about three kilometers away . Radom Airport has its own siding, but it runs through the military base on the northern edge and is therefore not usable for passengers.

history

Early history

Construction of the airport in Radom began in May 1929, at the beginning it was used for the training of civil pilots. In April 1932 the airport was handed over to the Polish Ministry of Military Affairs. This expanded the area by acquiring land, and hangars , barracks and a shooting range were also built. Until the Second World War , military pilots and paratroopers were trained in Radom.

At the beginning of World War II, the German air force bombed the airport. Aircraft and hangars were destroyed and the personnel had to be evacuated. The Air Force then used the airport to train and prepare pilots for the Eastern Front . Towards the end of the war the airport was badly damaged and mined . The Polish armed forces returned in March 1945, and since then pilots have been trained in Radom again.

After the Second World War

From 1999 to 2000 the taxiways were renewed. The Radom Air Show has been taking place at the airport since 2000 . In the 1990s, major military air shows were held at various military airfields in Poland before Radom was chosen as the venue in 2000.

Conversion to a civil airport

In June 2006 the future operating company Port Lotniczy Radom SA was founded. As part of a restructuring, the military part of the airport became 42 Baza Lotnictwa Szkolnego on January 1, 2011 and is subordinate to 4 Skrzydło Lotnictwa Szkolnego . At the end of January 2011, a contract was signed between the operator and the military for the shared use of 125 hectares of the airport grounds. In July 2012, the operating company bought the former Terminal 2 of Łódź Airport, including its equipment, for 2 million złoty . The terminal was then rebuilt with minor changes on the site of a former allotment garden in Radom. In May 2013 a new DVOR navigation system was installed. A year later, the airport received its operating license and was entered in the register of Polish civil airports.

However, the first scheduled flight was only operated at the beginning of September 2015. It was a flight from Air Baltic to Riga . Czech Airlines operated the first flights in the middle of the same month. The load factor remained inadequate, however, with an average of only six passengers being transported with each flight in September. At the end of October, Czech Airlines suspended flights to and from Radom. The load factor had meanwhile dropped to three passengers, the airline officially justified the step with the lack of equipment for aircraft de-icing . Air Baltic ended its cooperation with Radom Airport in mid-November. Therefore, after only three months, it was no longer served by a single airline.

Czech Airlines returned to Radom on December 20, 2015. The airport had contractually agreed with the airline to extend the flights from Prague to Ostrava to Radom. However, no tickets could be bought for the section between Ostrava and Radom. When the contract with Czech Airlines expired on February 22, 2016 and was not extended, the airport was again without an airline.

On February 26, 2016, SprintAir announced the start of flights on April 18, 2016. At the beginning the flight plan consisted of flights to Berlin , Wroclaw , Gdansk and Prague. Lviv was then offered as a further destination . The flights to Berlin have since been suspended. However, Wroclaw was also deleted from the flight plan.

The contract with SprintAir expired on October 29, 2017, so that the airport has not been served by any airline since then. In August 2018, the state airport operator Polish Airports State Enterprise announced its intention to expand Radom-Sadków Airport in order to relieve the Warsaw airports. In particular, charter flights are to be relocated to Radom afterwards.

Infrastructure

Lotnisko Łódź 2.jpg
Terminal 2 in Łódź
Radom Airport terminal.JPG
Reconstruction in Radom
PZL-130 Orlik during the 2005 Radom Air Show

Runways

Radom-Sadków Airport has a runway called 07/25. It is 2000 m long and 45 m wide. The middle part of the track is paved, at the ends it is paved over a length of 200 and 230 m. Since the last modernization, the taxiways have had an asphalt surface.

Civil Terminal

The airport has a passenger terminal with around 3,000 square meters of floor space and four piers . It has a capacity of 550,000 passengers per year. The terminal is located on the western edge of the airport site. Originally the building was Terminal 2 of Łódź Airport .

The purely civil part of the airport has an area of ​​22.5 ha . In addition, an area of ​​125 ha is shared with the military, so that a total of 147.5 ha can be used for civilian purposes.

Military base

The military base covers an area of ​​371 hectares, including the 125 hectares shared with the civil airport. It has several hangars , a barracks area and its own siding.

Others

The control tower is located on the north side of the airport.

Military use

The 42nd Air Training Base is subordinate to the 4th Aviation Training Squadron ( 4th Skrzydło Lotnictwa Szkolnego ) of the Dęblin military airfield and currently (2019) consists of a flying group equipped with PZL-130TC-1 / TC-2 and M-28TD . Then there is the support and maintenance group.

Civil use

Airlines and Destinations

Saab 340A from SprintAir at Radom-Sadków Airport

Radom-Sadków Airport is currently not used by any airline .

Most recently it was served exclusively by SprintAir , but the contract expired on October 29, 2017. This resulted in scheduled flights to Gdansk , Lviv and Prague through and sat Turboprop - regional aircraft a.

Traffic figures

year Passenger volume Flight movements Freight
(tons)
2017 09,903 480 0
2016 08,965 659 0
2015 0670 110 0
Swell:

Incidents

  • On September 1, 2007, during a demonstration at the Radom Air Show, two of three Zlín Z-526s of the Polish aerobatic team AZL Żelazny involved in a maneuver collided in the air and crashed. The founder of the aerobatic team and another pilot died.
  • On August 30, 2009, a Belarusian Sukhoi Su-27 crashed into a nearby forest during the Radom Air Show . Both pilots were killed.

Web links

Commons : Radom-Sadkow Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Radom airport gains first passenger connection. TheNews.pl , September 2, 2015, accessed July 31, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Airport infrastructure. Lotnisko-Radom.eu, accessed on July 31, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d About us. Lotnisko-Radom.eu, accessed on July 31, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Passenger terminal. Lotnisko-Radom.eu, accessed on July 31, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ a b c Statystyki wg portów lotniczych. ULC.GOV.pl, accessed April 10, 2018 (Polish).
  6. ↑ a b Statistics - freight on board. ULC.GOV.pl, accessed on August 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Location. Lotnisko-Radom.eu, accessed on August 1, 2017 (English).
  8. ^ How to get to the airport. Lotnisko-Radom.eu, accessed on July 31, 2017 (English).
  9. ↑ Historia lotniska w Radomiu. 1KL.wp.mil.pl, accessed on July 31, 2017 (English).
  10. ^ History of Air Show in Poland. (No longer available online.) AirShow.wp.mil.pl, archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; accessed on July 31, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / en.airshow.wp.mil.pl
  11. ^ History. Lotnisko-Radom.eu, accessed on July 30, 2017 (English).
  12. ↑ Co dalej z lotniskiem w Radomiu? Czeski przewoźnik zawiesił połączenia. PolskieRadio.pl , October 22, 2015, accessed July 30, 2017 (Polish).
  13. ↑ Radom: Czesi wracają do gry? RynekInfektury.pl, December 11, 2015, accessed July 31, 2017 (Polish).
  14. ↑ Air Baltic się wycofuje. Port Lotniczy Radom bez przewoźników. Radom.Wyborcza.pl , November 12, 2015, accessed July 31, 2017 (Polish).
  15. ↑ CSA: Radom - Praga reaktywacja! Pasazer.com, December 10, 2015, accessed July 31, 2017 (Polish).
  16. ↑ Sprint Air Poleci for Radomia. Aż cztery nowe kierunki. Pasazer.com, February 26, 2016, accessed July 31, 2017 (Polish).
  17. ↑ Nowa trasa z Radomia do Lwowa. (No longer available online.) SprintAir.eu , archived from the original on June 2, 2017 ; Retrieved July 31, 2017 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sprintair.eu
  18. ↑ Więcej lotów for Radomia do Wrocławia i Gdańska. (No longer available online.) SprintAir.eu, archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; Retrieved July 31, 2017 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sprintair.eu
  19. ↑ Zimowy rozkład lotów for Portu Lotniczego Radom. (No longer available online.) SprintAir.eu, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 31, 2017 (Polish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: dead link / sprintair.eu  
  20. ↑ a b flight plan. (No longer available online.) SprintAir.eu, archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; accessed on July 31, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sprintair.eu
  21. ↑ a b Port Lotniczy Radom. Wygasa umowa na loty ze SprintAir, kolejnej never ma. Co dalej z lotniskiem? echodnia.eu, October 23, 2017, accessed on August 18, 2018 (Polish).
  22. ↑ a b Poland wants to relocate charter airlines. aeroTELEGRAPH.com, August 18, 2018, accessed on August 18, 2018 (German).
  23. ↑ About Us - Fleet. SprintAir.eu, accessed July 31, 2017 (English).
  24. ↑ Air show ends in disaster. Sueddeutsche.de , May 11, 2010, accessed on July 31, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Belarusian fighter plane crashed at air show. (No longer available online.) Tagesschau.de , September 2, 2009, archived from the original on September 2, 2009 ; accessed on July 31, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tagesschau.de