VN-0001 Dong Hoi Airport MVFR

  • Name
    Dong Hoi Airport
  • ICAO / IATA / GPS
    VN-0001 / VDH / VVDH
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    10:15 am (ICT)
  • Municipality
    Dong Hoi
  • Coordinates
    17° 30′ 54″ N 106° 35′ 26″ E
  • Elevation
    59 ft (18 m MSL)

About Dong Hoi Airport

Dong Hoi Airport (IATA: VDH, ICAO: VVDH) is an airport located in Loc Ninh commune, 6 km (3.7 mi) north of Đồng Hới city, capital of Quảng Bình Province, in North Central Coast of Vietnam, about 500 km (310 mi) southeast of Hanoi by road. The facilities cover 173 ha, on a sandy area, by the coast of South China Sea. The runway approaches near the seashore and nearly parallel to the Highway 1. The airport, like all civil airports in Vietnam, is owned and operated by Airports Corporation of Vietnam.

The airstrip was built unpaved by French colonists in the 1930s to serve the First Indochina War and was later upgraded by North Vietnam as an airbase for the Vietnam War. On 30 August 2004, the reconstruction of the airport began and was scheduled to be completed in 2006 but not until May 2008 was it inaugurated. On May 18, 2008, the airport was officially put into operation with the first commercial flight from Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport.

As of March 2015, this is one of 4 commercial airports in North Central Coast, the others are Phu Bai International Airport in Huế, Vinh Airport in Nghệ An Province, and Tho Xuan Airport in Thanh Hóa Province.

The airport handled 500,000 passengers in 2017, to its full designed capacity. The airport is estimated to handle 700,000 passengers in 2018.

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