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LBWB Balchik Airfield MVFR

  • Name
    Balchik Airfield
  • ICAO / GPS
    LBWB / LBWB
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    4:09 am (EET)
  • Municipality
    Balchik
  • Coordinates
    43° 25′ 25″ N 28° 10′ 52″ E
  • Elevation
    617 ft (188 m MSL)

About Balchik Airfield

Balchik Airport (Bulgarian: Летище Балчик) (ICAO: LBWB) is a general aviation airfield and reduced former military airbase in the town of Balchik, northeast Bulgaria, on the Black Sea coast. In August 2011 the Bulgarian government transformed Balchik airbase from a military to a civilian airport and it became part of the assets of the state-owned company Sofia Airport EAD.

Due to its strategic location, the former military airfield has been home to different military aviation formations and performed different types of tasks related to the country's defence. Despite major structural changes in the Bulgarian Air Force, the disbandment and closure of military airbases, Balchik airbase continues to perform reduced defence-related tasks.

The intention to organize civil flights at Balchik airfield and its use as both a military airbase and a civilian airport established Balchik as a non-commercial regional transport hub, providing jobs and better use of the resources in this region. On 3 May 2012 at 19:06 the first private civil flight "Prague-Varna-Balchik" landed, via neighbouring Varna Airport due to the lack of passport border control at Balchik airport. The airport's general aviation civil aviation license at this stage is for non-commercial flights with a maximum takeoff weight up to 5.7 tonnes and for flights within the European Union 48 hours prior notice is required for the airport to provide a border police control presence; this is due to Bulgaria currently not being a member of the EU Schengen Area.

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