King Fahad International Airport (IATA: DMM, ICAO: OEDF) is located near Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It is the largest airport in the world in terms of area, covering 780 km² (301 mi²), surpassing Montréal-Mirabel International Airport (including Mirabel's reserved but unused 356 km² (137 mi²)). It is slightly larger than the neighboring country of Bahrain.
Malta International Airport (IATA: MLA, ICAO: LMML), still referred to by locals as Luqa Airport, is located between Luqa and Gudja in Malta. It occupies the location of the former RAF Luqa. The completely re-furbished airport became fully operational on March 25, 1992.
While most other airports serve large cities, Malta International Airport (MLA) serves the whole Maltese Archip...
Orbiter landings at the Kennedy Space Center are made on one of the largest runways in the world. The runway is located 3.2 km (2 miles) northwest of the Vehicle Assembly Building and is 4,572 meters (15,000ft) long and 91.4 meters (300ft) wide - about as wide as the length of a football field. It has 305 meters (1000ft) of paved overruns at each end and the paving thickness is 40.6cm (15 inche...
Here you see approx. 26 different types of aircraft positioned at this, what appears unused, airbase. You can also see a bunch (50+) of vehicles which look to be jeeps or some other personnel carrier.
This is Dingxin Military Airport in China.
All the Chinese Air Force bases and fields based on information from the GlobalSecurity.org site . It's very intesting where the bases are concentrated - near Taiwan and near South Korea! Also check out the J-11 [Su-27] fighter jets at Wuhu, Fenghuang, Suixi and Zhangjiiakou Airbases.
April 28, 2004 The final curtain falls for Naval Air Station Valkenburg. The Dutch minister of Defence, Henk Kamp, decided to close the airfield and to sell out the Dutch P-3C "Orions", at the first of January 2005 for budgetairy reasons, in spite off a 200 million Euro costing update program(CUP) for these aircraft which they are undergoing right now. This minister was blind and deaf for reas...
The Geilenkirchen Air Base now is scrambled in most parts which means google earth unfortunately supports censorship on its page. The AWACS planes can't be seen any more...
The airport is available for national and international VFR civil air traffic with all types of aircraft up to 6000 kg AUW and gliders.
Runway: RWY27/09, 730 m x 27 m asphalt
Groningen Airport Eelde (IATA: GRQ, ICAO: EHGG) is a civilian airport near Eelde, The Netherlands just south of Groningen.
bmi Regional operates a scheduled passenger service with Aberdeen, but the airport is mostly used for charter flights to holiday destinations in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. In 2005, the airport handled 163.000 passengers.
Runway1:05/23 5,905ft...
BRU, ICAO: EBBR) (Dutch: Luchthaven Zaventem, French: l'Aéroport de Bruxelles), also called Brussels National Airport or Zaventem Airport, is an international airport located in Zaventem, in Flanders, near Brussels, Belgium. The airport is a hub to SN Brussels Airlines, Virgin Express and DHL Aviation.
Runways:
2/20 9,799.87ft. 2,987m. Paved
7R/25L 10,534.78ft. 3,211m. Pa...
Midden-Zeeland (ICAO: EHMZ), also known as Zeeland Airport, is an airport located near Middelburg, Zeeland in The Netherlands.
Runway: 09/27 3,281ft.1,000m. Grass
Lelystad Airport (IATA: LEY, ICAO: EHLE) is an airport near Lelystad, The Netherlands. It is the biggest general aviation airport in The Netherlands and is also home to a large aviation museum, the Aviodrome. The museum's former KLM Boeing 747-200 which they have on display is a prominent feature on the airport.
Runway: 05/23 4,265ft. 1,300m.Concrete/Asphalt
Texel International Airport (ICAO: EHTX) is a small airport on the island of Texel in the north of the Netherlands. It has a customs service to handle international flights making it an international airport, though no scheduled international flights take place from the airport as the name might suggest. Because of this, it has no IATA code assigned to it.
Runway1: 04/22 3,685ft 1,115 m...