Bragança Airport ( pt, Aeródromo de Bragança) is a regional
airport
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serving
Bragança,
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
. It is located north-northeast of the city.
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Bragança Airport:
Accidents and incidents
*On 8 May 1994, an
Aerocondor
Aerocondor (ATA Aerocondor Transportes Aéreos Lda.) was one of the first private capital Portuguese airlines certified by the ''Instituto Nacional de Aviação Civil (INAC)'' (''National Institute for Civil Aviation'') to transport passengers, a ...
Britten-Norman Trislander
The Britten-Norman Trislander (more formally designated the BN-2A Mk III Trislander) is an 18-seat three-engined piston-powered civilian utility aircraft produced in the 1970s and early 1980s by Britten-Norman of Britain. These STOL capable ai ...
,
registered CS-DAF, operating the
Lisbon–Bragança route,
crash-landed into trees near the airport, following loss of power. There were no reported fatalities but the aircraft was
written off
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.
See also
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Transport in Portugal
Transport in Portugal is well-developed and diversified. Portugal has a network of roads, of which almost are part of a 44 motorways system. Brisa is the largest highway management concessionaire. With 89,015 km2, Continental Portugal has ...
*
List of airports in Portugal
This is a list of airports in Portugal (including Azores and Madeira), sorted by location.
List
Notes:
* The location is the municipality ('' município'' or ''concelho'') which in a few instances is preceded by the parish (''freguesia'').
* The ...
*
National Institute of Civil Aviation of Portugal
The Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority ( pt, Autoridade Nacional de Aviação Civil), often shortened to ''ANAC'', is the civil aviation authority of Portugal. It oversees all aspects of civil aviation within the Portuguese territory and all i ...
References
Airports in Portugal
Buildings and structures in Bragança District
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