- Pančevo Airport
Infobox Airport
name = Pančevo Airport
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nativename-a = Аеродром Панчево
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IATA = QBG
ICAO = LYPA
type = Civil
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location = Pančevo
elevation-f = 240
elevation-m = 73
coordinates = Coord|44|55|03.37|N|20|38|17.01|E|type:airport|display=inline,title
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r1-number = 13/31
r1-length-f = 3,281
r1-length-m = 1,000
r1-surface = Grass
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footnotes =Pančevo Airport ("Аеродром Панчево" or "Aerodrom Pančevo") airport codes|QBG|LYPA is an airport near the city of
Pančevo ,Serbia . The airport is mostly used for sport. It has one runway that is 1,000metres long and 60 metres wide.Airport also use
Lola Utva aircraft factory for testing aircraft, located inPančevo , nearBelgrade , first founded in 1937 inZemun , known of its light sporting and training aircraft.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.ee also
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Pančevo
*List of airports in Serbia External links
* [http://www.modli.co.yu/flying/books/slobodno_sletanje/19%20PANCEVO.pdf Pančevo airport information (PDF)]
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