Phrae Airport ( th, ท่าอากาศยานแพร่) is an

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Phrae Phrae (; ) is a town (''thesaban mueang'') in northern Thailand, capital of Phrae Province. The town occupies ''tambon'' Nai Wiang of Mueang Phrae District. It has an area of nine kilometres2 and a population of 17,971 (2005). Phrae is 555 km no ...

, a town in the Phrae Province of

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History

Phrae Airport was built during

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with a gravel runway. After the war ended, the airport operator was given to

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for them to maintain. Then, Phrae Airport was developed by Department of Commercial Aviation (Thailand) in 1952 for passenger and airmail uses by upgrading the runway to be 30 x 1,200 meters and building a terminal. In 1971 - 1973 Department of Civil Aviation (Thailand) upgraded the runway, taxiway, and tarmac's material to be

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, and extending the runway again to be 1,500 meters long. In 1974 - 1975, the current terminal was built, and was expanded in 1981 - 1982 to 250 square meters. The terminal was expanded again in 1990 to 432 square meters, and installed air conditioners. Then, a new 7-floor air traffic control tower was built to separate it from the terminal in 1996.complete history of Phrae Airport (Thai)
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Facilities

Terminal

Phrae Airport's terminal is 3 storeys tall, but only one floor is used. The building space is 1,400 square meters, which can accommodate up to 374 people per hour.
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s at the same time. There are also six helicopter landing pads.

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

Traffic numbers

References

External links

Phrae Airport, Dept of Civil Aviation
{{authority control Airports in Thailand Phrae province Airports established in 1952