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Balchik Airfield
Летище Балчик
Balchik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Air Force MiG-21bis aircraft operated at Balchik airbase until 1998
Balchik Airport (Bulgarian: Летище Балчик) (ICAO: LBWB),[1] 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.[1][2]
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.[3][4]
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,[1] providing jobs and better use of the resources in this region.[2] 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.[5] 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;[1][5] this is due to Bulgaria currently not being a member of the EU Schengen Area.
^ ab"Държавата ще инвестира 30 млн. лева в летището в Балчик" [The state will invest BGN 30 million in Balchik airport] (in Bulgarian). Sofia: InfoTourism. 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
^"Ban on civilian flights, sailing as Bulgarian Air Force holds exercise at Shabla". Sofia: The Sofia Globe. 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
^"ЛЕТИЩЕ БАЛЧИК СЪБРА ПИЛОТИ ОТ ТРИ БАЗИ" [Balchik Airport Gathers Pilots From Three Bases] (in Bulgarian). Dobrich: Dobrich24. 2015-06-05. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
^ abDobreva, Maria (2012). "На летището в Балчик кацна първият граждански полет" [The first civilian flight landed at the airport in Balchik] (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Nova Broadcasting Group. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
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