Katowice-Muchowiec Airport

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Katowice-Muchowiec Airport Lotnisko Katowice-Muchowiec
IATA: N/A - ICAO: EPKM
Summary
Airport type		Sport/Public
Operator		Aeroklub Śląski
Serves		Katowice
Elevation AMSL		909 ft (277 m)
Coordinates		50°14′17.33″N, 19°02′03.05″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
05/23	3,640	1,109	Concrete

Katowice-Muchowiec Airport (Polish: Lotnisko Katowice-Muchowiec, ICAO code: EPKM) is a general aviation (mainly sport use) airport in the Muchowiec neighborhood of Katowice, Poland.

It has one concrete runway, RWY 05/23 with the dimmensions of 1109 x 30 meters (3640 x 98 feet). There is a displaced threshold length of 221 meters (725 feet) on both RWY 05 and RWY 23, yielding a landing distance of 888 meters (2915 feet).

The airport was built in the 1920s, and was used for civil aviation including scheduled passenger traffic, starting in 1926 with service to Warsaw. However, owing to ground damage due to mining activity, the passenger traffic was eliminated, and now only the sport use remains.

On the other hand, because of the long commute from the city centre to the existing 30 km-distant Katowice International Airport, it has been proposed to the Katowice government in 2005 that a city airport be built at Katowice-Muchowiec Airport, serving primarily the business community, using STOL aircraft. This would entail extending the runway some 300-400 meters and building new facilities, including a passenger terminal. It is unclear how the proposed improvements are to be squared with the conditions which forced the cessation of passenger traffic in the first place.