Pančevo Airport
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| Pančevo Airport (Аеродром Панчево) |
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| IATA: QBG - ICAO: LYPA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Civil | ||
| Serves | Pančevo | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 240 ft (73 m) | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 13/31 | 3,281 | 1,000 | Grass |
Pančevo Airport (Аеродром Панчево or Aerodrom Pančevo) (IATA: QBG, ICAO: LYPA) is an airport near the city of Pančevo, Serbia. The airport is mostly used for sport. It has one runway that is 1,000 metres long and 60 metres wide.
Airport also use Lola Utva aircraft factory for testing aircraft, located in Pančevo, near Belgrade, first founded in 1937 in Zemun, known of its light sporting and training aircraft.
[edit] History
On March 15, 1923, airplanes of "Franko-Rumen" company started landing on Pancevo Airport.
On March 25, 1923 Belgrade was for the first time included in the system of the international air traffic. Airplanes of "Franko-Rumen" company landed in Pancevo Airport on Paris-Istanbul line.
On September 9, 1923 the first plane took off on a regular line for Bucharest. It was the first commercial night flight in the history of the world aviation. The "Franko - Rumen" company decided so in practical reasons. It was the only way for their plane on the Paris-Belgrade-Bucharest-Istanbul line to reach its final destination before the at the time being famous luxurious "Orient Express" train which left Paris at the same time and with the same destination, but moved during the night as well.
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