Warsaw Babice Airport
| Warszawa-Babice | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EPBC |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 106 m (348 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 7 km northwest of Warsaw |
| Runways | |
| 10R / 28L | 1301 m × 90 m concrete |
| 10L / 28R | 1000 m × 150 m grass |
The Warsaw Babice Airport (Polish: Lotnisko Warszawa-Babice , ICAO EPBC ) is an airfield in Warsaw . It is located about seven kilometers northwest of the city center in the Bemowo district at an altitude of 106 m AMSL .
Flight operations
The airfield is open on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. LMT . It is only approved for VFR traffic .
Infrastructure
The airfield has two parallel runways with an east-west orientation. The 1301 m long, fired main runway 10R / 28L consists of concrete slabs . To the north of this is the 1000 m long grass runway 10L / 28R.
The tower and several paved taxiways that lead to the southern aprons and hangars are located south of the railway system . On the north side there are buildings and hangars of the air rescue service Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe and the air sports club Aeroklub Warszawski .
history
The current airfield is a partially dismantled airfield of the Polish Air Force . This originally had two runways: 5/23 (concrete, 2000 m × 80 m) and 10/28 (concrete, 2500 m × 90 m). The former was rededicated after the discontinuation of military use in the early 1980s in the public street ulica Powstańców Śląskich (Street of the Silesian Insurgents ) , which initially used the concrete surface layer, while the second, shortened and dismantled to the east of the railroad crossing, forms the current SLB 10R / 28L. Since then, the residential development, which largely consists of high-rise buildings, has moved closer to the airfield and the airfield has been planned to be closed for over 30 years.
In 1959, American Vice President Richard Nixon's plane landed at Babice Airport on the occasion of his trip to Moscow .
literature
- Polska Agencja Żeglugi Powietrznej: AIP VFR Poland - AD 4 EPBC