Lošinj Airport is a privately owned public airport 3.2

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s (5.9 km) from

Mali Lošinj Mali Lošinj is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, on the island of Lošinj, in western Croatia. At the time of the 2021 census, there were 7,537 inhabitants, of whom 86% were Croats. The town of Mali Lošinj itself had an urban populat ...

on the island of

Lošinj Lošinj (; ; , earlier ''Osero''; ; ; ) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, in the Kvarner Gulf. It is almost due south of the city of Rijeka and part of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The settlements on Lošinj include Nerez ...

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. It is registered for domestic and international traffic. It is one of five island airports in the country (the most notable being

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island's Rijeka Airport and

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on the eponymous island).

Overview

The runway is 900 m long and 30 m wide, and is equipped with 1C signalization, according to the ICAO. A non-precision

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using an

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located near the city is published. The runway and

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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 as a general aviation airport for air sports in 1985 when Croatia was still part of

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Airlines and destinations

As of February 2021, there are no regular flights scheduled. The sole remaining seasonal route by Silver Air to

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is not scheduled for resumption in the wake of the

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Statistics

References

External links

Official website
Airports in Croatia Lošinj Buildings and structures in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Transport in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Yugoslav Croatian architecture {{Croatia-struct-stub