Batllava airfield
| Aeroporti i Batllavës - Aerodrome Batlava-Donja Penduha | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | LYPT | ||
| IATA code | JBT | ||
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| Height above MSL | 603 m (1978 ft )
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| Start-and runway | |||
| 02/20 | 1500 m earth | ||
The Batllava airfield ( Albanian Aeroporti i Batllavës , Serbian Аеродром Батлава-Доња Пендуха Aerodrome Batlava-Donja Penduha ) is located around eight kilometers south of Podujeva in Kosovo . The name Batllava comes from the nearby village of Batllava .
history
Batllava airfield was the first regularly used airfield in Kosovo. It was already served by Aeroput in 1936 as a stopover on the route from Belgrade to Skopje . Later it was used by the Yugoslav military . During the Kosovo war in 1999, it was bombed and damaged by NATO .
