Lošinj Airport is a privately owned public airport 3.2
nautical mile
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s (5.9 km) from
Mali Lošinj
Mali Lošinj ( it, Lussinpiccolo, vec, Lusinpicolo) is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, on the island of Lošinj, in western Croatia. At the time of the 2011 census, there were 8,116 inhabitants, of whom 86% were Croats.
The favourab ...
on the island of
Lošinj,
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. It is registered for domestic and international traffic.
Overview
The runway is 900 m long and 30 m wide, and is equipped with 1C signalization according to the ICAO. A non-precision
instrument approach
In aviation, an instrument approach or instrument approach procedure (IAP) is a series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft operating under instrument flight rules from the beginning of the initial approach to a landi ...
using an
NDB located near the city is published. The runway and
taxiway
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s are paved with asphalt. Two taxiways are positioned at 45° from the runway.
The traffic consists primarily of small aircraft. It was built in 1985 when Croatia was still part of
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...
and it was built as a general aviation airport for the air sports.
Airlines and destinations
As of February 2021, there are no regular flights scheduled and the airport. The sole remaining seasonal route by
Silver Air to
Lugano
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is not scheduled for resumption in the wake of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
silverair.worldticket.net
retrieved 14 February 2021
Statistics
References
External links
Official website
Airports in Croatia
Lošinj
Buildings and structures in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
Transport in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
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