Airport details

Balchik Air Base

Balchik, Bulgaria Europe

ICAO LBWB 1 runways
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Airport information

Dataset record
IATA
-
ICAO
LBWB
Elevation
660 ft / 201 m
Runways
1
Longest runway
8,095 ft / 2,467 m
Main surface
Concrete
Timezone
Unknown
Coordinates
43.423801422119, 28.181299209595

Location

OpenStreetMap

Weather snapshot

Europe/Sofia · Updated Sat 7 Nov, 05:00

Open-Meteo

Clear sky now, with temperatures around 1°C to 7°C (33°F to 45°F) today and up to 0% rain risk.

Current
Clear sky
Temperature
3°C
37°F
Humidity
87%
Wind
16 km/h 10 mph
Local time
05:12
Sunrise
06:50
Sunset
16:51

Today

Overcast

1°C to 7°C 33°F to 45°F

Rain 0%
Wind 26 km/h 16 mph

Sun

Overcast

-1°C to 8°C 31°F to 46°F

Rain 0%
Wind 13 km/h 8 mph

Mon

Overcast

3°C to 10°C 37°F to 50°F

Rain 6%
Wind 17 km/h 10 mph

Airline service

Routes dataset

No airline route coverage data is currently available for this airport.

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About

From Wikipedia

Balchik Air Base

Balchik Airport(Bulgarian:Летище Балчик) (ICAO:LBWB) is a general aviation airfield and reduced former military airbase in the town of Balchik, northeast Bulgaria, on the Black Sea coast. In August 2011 the Bulgarian government transformed Balchik airbase from a military to a civilian airport and it became part of the assets of the state-owned company Sofia Airport EAD.

Due to its strategic location, the former military airfield has been home to different military aviation formations and performed different types of tasks related to the country's defence. Despite major structural changes in the Bulgarian Air Force, the disbandment and closure of military airbases, Balchik airbase continues to perform reduced defence-related tasks.

The intention to organize civil flights at Balchik airfield and its use as both a military airbase and a civilian airport established Balchik as a non-commercial regional transport hub, providing jobs and better use of the resources in this region. On 3 May 201...

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Balchik Air Base

Country

Bulgaria

Official name
Bulgaria

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