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Lisbon Airport
Humberto Delgado Airport is an international airport located seven kilometres northeast of the city centre of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The airport is the main international gateway to Portugal. As of 2021, it was the 16th-largest airport in Europe in terms of passenger volume, and carried 190,700,00 tonnes of cargo. It is an important European hub to Brazil, the largest European Star Alliance hub to South America and also a European hub to Africa.
The airport is the main hub of Portugal's flag carrier TAP Air Portugal, including its subsidiary TAP Express, as well as being a hub for low-cost airlines Ryanair and easyJet. It is a focus city for Azores Airlines, euroAtlantic Airways, Hi Fly and White Airways. The airport is run by ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, which was concessioned to the French group Vinci SA in February 2013.
Lisbon airport has consistently ranked dismally in customer satisfaction, with AirHelp polling it in last place amongst 132 airports in the world as of 2022. It is one of the most congested airports of Europe and one of the only major airports to have a runway directly over the city, notwithstanding plans to build a new airport elsewhere. These plans have for decades been postponed or suspended for a myriad of reasons.
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Agricultural strip in good condition used to load a Piper crop duster operating in the area.
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Runway 28/10
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Agricultural shared airstrip/road in good condition.
Beware that sometimes there are some containers on the north end of the strip.
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It is served by the airline AeroVip (7Air) in its line Bragança-Vila Real-Viseu-Cascais-Portimão, which also has its base here in LPCS.
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Public airfield certified for ultra-lights. It has a small restaurant and a dirt runway in very good condition.
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Private airfield open to the public, certified for ultra-lights. It houses an ultra-light flight school and has a restaurant that serves typical courses of the region. Runway in excellent condition.
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Small public airfield certified for ultra-lights, near the medieval town of Óbidos. Runway in fairly good condition.
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Private airstrip right on the beach of 'Areia Branca' near the town of Lourinhã. In average condition.
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Very popular public airfield, certified for all sorts of light GA traffic. Known for its challenging but extremely satisfying approaches, it has the nickname 'aircraft carrier' in the country due to its somewhat short runway for non ULM traffic.
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Private airfield open to the public. Certified for ultra-lights and very popular with recreational pilots. In good condition.
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Public airfield certified for, and very popular with ultra-lights. Dirt strip in very good condition.
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One of the most important air bases of the Portuguese Air Force, Ota Air Base is the main center for the training of Air Force personnel in the country, mainly for the ground school part of the training, with the flight training occurring mostly at Sintra Air Base (LPST).
Between 2008-2010 there were talks and proposals to build a new international airport at the air base's location, to replace the current Lisbon airport (LPPT), though these ultimately fell to ground due to the unsuitability of the soils for the project and the dangerous geography of the area (with a mountain ridge rising quickly to 500m after you take off from runway 35).
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Main gateway into the country of Portugal, with 26,670,000 passengers through it in 2017, it is the 20th busiest airport in Europe. The airport has grown by more than 10% in passenger numbers each year in the last 6 years, mostly due to the increasing trend of Lisbon being 'the' European city to visit in these last few years.
First opened in 1940, Lisbon Airport has continuously been the main Hub of the country's flag-carrier: TAP Air Portugal; which has most of its aircraft based here.
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Portuguese Air Force base which never did house any squadrons, has always only served as a logistical support airfield. It was the first airport of the country, serving the capital Lisbon before the construction of the current international airport (LPPT) in 1940. It also houses a secondary exhibition of the "Museu do Ar". The main exhibition is located in Sintra Air Base (LPST).
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The airport with the most aircraft movements after Lisbon & Porto's international airports, and the single biggest GA airport in the country. Home to 4 different flight schools and the biggest non-ultra-light airclub in the country, Cascais Municipal Airport is one of the most important civil airfields in the country.
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The first air base of the Portuguese Air Force, and one of the most important ones. Home of the basic flying school squadron of the Air Force, equipped with DHC-1 Chipmunks. It is also home to the "Museu do Ar" or 'Air Museum', which is the single biggest collection and museum of aviation history in Portugal.
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RUNWAY 17---VFR---170º
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🔗 Sun, 24 Dec 2023
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