Ventspils International Airport (IATA: VNT, ICAO: EVVA) is an airport located 2.7 NM (5.0 km; 3.1 mi) southwest of Ventspils, Latvia. It is the newest airport and along with Liepāja International Airport and Riga International Airport is one of the three notable airports in the country.
Ventspils Airport was founded in 1975. One asphalt-concrete runway (1,298 × 32 m (4,259 × 105 ft)) and an apron (100 × 100 m (328 × 328 ft)) were built. At that t...
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Ventspils International Airport (IATA: VNT, ICAO: EVVA) is an airport located 2.7 NM (5.0 km; 3.1 mi) southwest of Ventspils, Latvia. It is the newest airport and along with Liepāja International Airport and Riga International Airport is one of the three notable airports in the country.
Ventspils Airport was founded in 1975. One asphalt-concrete runway (1,298 × 32 m (4,259 × 105 ft)) and an apron (100 × 100 m (328 × 328 ft)) were built. At that time there was an air control dispatchers point at the aerodrome and 40 - 45 employees worked in the airport. The aerodrome was used by aircraft AN-24, AN-2, YAK-40, MI-2. The flight range was small and there were only two scheduled flights Ventspils - Riga and Ventspils - Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
In addition to commercial traffic, different state departments utilized the airport for various reasons. There were state border control flights, flights for oil pipeline control, forest patrols, traffic control, fishing inspection flights and...
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