Breda International Airport ( nl, Breda International Airport ) is a small

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airfield located next to the A58 motorway on the outskirts of

Bosschenhoofd Bosschenhoofd is a village in the municipality of Halderberge in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. The village is also known as Seppe, a name used by the nearby Seppe Airport. Seppe was derived from Jacobus Sep who ran an inn. Bef ...

, a village in the municipality of

Halderberge Halderberge () is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. Population centres * Oudenbosch (population: 13,110) * Hoeven (6,560) *Oud Gastel (6,360) *Bosschenhoofd (2,180) *Stampersgat (1,330) Topography ''Dutch Topographic map of the muni ...

in the province of

North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...

in the

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. It is located southwest of

Hoeven Hoeven is a village in the municipality of Halderberge in the Netherlands. The name Hoeven originated from the purchase of a certain amount of ground in 1282 by the abbey of Cistercians of Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Bernard. This amount was equal ...

, west from

Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

and east-northeast of

Roosendaal Roosendaal () is both a city and a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. Towns/villages of the municipality * Roosendaal (population: 66,760) * Wouw (4,920) * Heerle (1, ...

. The airport has one single asphalt runway, 06/24(used to be 07/25), with a length of and a significantly

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(meaning an area at the beginning of that runway is not to be used for landing) on either side. Originally called Seppe Airport (after the nickname of Bosschenhoofd), the airport started in 1949 as a

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field and has been used by powered aircraft since 1969. In 2002, the grass runway surface was replaced with asphalt. The airfield is not used by aircraft using jet engines. Around 50,000 airplane movements (take-offs or landings) are made at Seppe annually. In February 2014 it was announced that the name of the airport would be changed to Breda International Airport. The airport was officially renamed on 1 January 2015. The airfield is also home to a small flying museum, ''Vliegend Museum Seppe'' (The Flying Museum of Seppe), having various aircraft, most of which are still airworthy, including two

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s, a

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and a

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. The airfield additionally houses

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References

External links

Breda International Airport
official website
Photos taken at Seppe Airport
from

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Vliegend museum Seppe
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