Novi Sad Airport
| Novi Sad Airport Čenej Airport Аеродром Ченеј Aerodrom Čenej | |||||||||||
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  Novi Sad Airport Location of Novi Sad Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Civil | ||||||||||
| Operator | City of Novi Sad | ||||||||||
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Novi Sad,  Serbia | ||||||||||
| Location | Čenej | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 250 ft / 76 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°23′08.67″N 19°50′02.01″E / 45.3857417°N 19.8338917°ECoordinates: 45°23′08.67″N 19°50′02.01″E / 45.3857417°N 19.8338917°E | ||||||||||
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Novi Sad Airport (Serbian: Аеродром Нови Сад / Aerodrom Novi Sad) (ICAO: LYNS), also known as Čenej Airport (Serbian: Аеродром Ченеј / Aerodrom Čenej) is located near the village of Čenej in Serbia.
It is 16 km (10 mi) north of the city of Novi Sad, on the eastern side of the Belgrade-Horgoš road. The site is mostly used for sport and agriculture.
History
The idea of building an international airport on this site is not new. In 1994 construction of the control tower begin, it is still not complete. A 2,500 meters asphalt runway capable of accommodating 70 to 80 seater aircraft is planned. The air corridor above Novi Sad has about 800 movements per day, of which 50 are so-called 'mini-business' flights. The site also has favourable prevailing winds. Meteorological data for the last 20 years shows the least number of fog affected days in the area per year.
On Saturday May 22, 2004, a Let L-410UVP-E Turbolet aircraft with 20 passengers aboard, which had departed from Tivat Airport, landed at the airport. The aircraft belonged to Di Air, a Montenegrin airline. It was a promotional flight aimed at showing interest in developing this airport in the future.
Development
On April 5, 2012 Government of Vojvodina decided to develop the airport for civilian traffic. Čenej Airport willing to finish construction of its terminal building by the end of 2015, so it can service passenger, business, low cost and cargo flights.
Provincial authorities estimate that the airport will be operational from 2015, and that when it was built to be used conception of public-private partnerships to provide additional funding. The airport will look similar to the airport in Tivat, Montenegro.
A model of the airport are presented by the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad. The airport was designed as an airport of "C" type with the outgoing and the incoming terminal, business object, with the control tower, and will occupy an area of about 7 hectares without a runway and internal roads.
Total investment in the airport will be 20 million euros.[1]
See also
- List of airports in Serbia
- Antonov An-74 Gazpromavia Antonov An-74-T-100
- Beechcraft 1900D
- SPn Utility Jet
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Čenej Airport. |
- Aeroklub Novi Sad - Zvanični sajt Aerokluba Novi Sad
- Novi Sad dobija aerodrom - b92.net
- Aeromiting na Čeneju 3.6.2007
- Novi Sad-Aeromiting-3.juni 2007.
- Aeromiting Cenej 2007
- Čenej raširio krila - novosti.rs
- DI Air Let L-410UVP-E Turbolet on LYNS
- Aero Klub Novi Sad
- (Serbian) Brojne pogodnosti
- (Serbian) Srbija će imati 16 malih aerodroma
- Novi Sad airport information (PDF)