Gjakova Airport AMIKO ( sq, Aeroporti i Gjakovës, sr, Аеродром Ђаковица/''Aerodrom Đakovica'') is an
airport in village Lugbunar, near
Gjakova in western
Kosovo. The airport is expected to become public in the following years, to be used by
low-cost commercial airlines and
cargo flights.
History
The airport was built by the
Kosovo Force
The Kosovo Force (KFOR) is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO-led international NATO peacekeeping, peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Its operations are gradually reducing until Kosovo Security Force, Kosovo's Security Force, established in 2 ...
(KFOR) following the 1999
Kosovo War, next to an existing airfield used for agricultural purposes, and was used mainly for military and humanitarian flights. On 18 December 2013, the airport was handed over to the
Government of Kosovo
sr, Влада Косова / Vlada Kosova
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from the
Italian Air Force. Under Italian Air Force operations, Gjakova Airfield handled more than 27,000 aircraft, 220,000 passengers and the carriage of more than 40,000 tons of cargo.
The local and national government plans to offer Gjakova Airport for operation under a public-private partnership with the aim of turning it into a civilian and commercial airport.
As of December 2015, the airport is reported as closed by the Kosovo authorities.
[http://www.caa-ks.org/images/stories/docs/English/tjera/AIP/AIP%20AD%20072015.pdf]
See also
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Alenia C-27J Spartan
The Alenia C-27J Spartan is a military transport aircraft developed and manufactured by Leonardo's Aircraft Division (formerly Alenia Aermacchi until 2016). It is an advanced derivative of Alenia Aeronautica's earlier G.222 (C-27A Spartan in ...
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Radoniq lake
Radoniq Lake or Radonjić Lake ( sq, Liqeni i Radoniqit; sr, Радоњићко језеро / ''Radonjićko jezero'') is a lake in Kosovo. After only Gazivoda Lake, it is the second largest in the territory of Kosovo, at 5.62 km2.
In 1998, ...
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Batlava-Donja Penduha Airfield
Batlava-Donja Penduha Airfield or Batlava Airport (Albanian: ''Aeroporti i Batllavës''; Serbian: Аеродром Батлава / ''Aerodrom Batlava'') is a former military airport in the village of Dumosh, near Lake Batlava and the towns of ...
in
Dumosh
(Albanian; or sr, Dumoš, italic=no) is a village located in northeastern Kosovo, in the municipality of Podujevo.
Demographics
The settlement in Dumosh is divided into several "mahalla" (quarters), such as Podvorica, Kutleshi, Maqastena, V ...
Annotations
References
External links
Gjakova Airport aerial photo
Airports in Kosovo
Gjakova
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