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Dov Airport

Sde Dov Airport
שדה דב
مطار سدي دوف
Sde Dov Airport and Reading Power Station.JPG
Sde Dov Airport and Reading Power Station
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Israel Airports Authority
Serves Israel
Location Tel Aviv, Israel
Elevation AMSL 42 ft / 13 m
Coordinates 32°6′38.99″N 34°46′46.01″E / 32.1108306°N 34.7794472°E / 32.1108306; 34.7794472
Website www.iaa.gov.il
Map
Sde Dov Airport is located in Israel
Sde Dov Airport
Sde Dov Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
03/21 5,712 1,741 Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Total Passenger Movements 703,649
Total Aircraft Movements 36,427
Total Passenger Movements 703,649
Total Aircraft Movements 36,427
Statistics for Sde Dov Airport
(not including Air Force traffic)
Year Total Passengers Total operations
2000 831,748 37,489
2001 879,922 38,884
2002 808,774 38,624
2003 757,817 37,674
2004 666,879 35,716
2005 662,951 34,687
2006 628,888 31,958
2007 703,649 36,427
2008 646,789 34,688
2009 661,830 31,886
2010 655,772 32,990
2011 658,741 31,821
2012 735,887 26,793

Sde Dov Airport (Hebrew: שדה דב‎‎, lit. Dov Field, Arabic: مطار سدي دوف‎‎), also known as Dov Hoz Airport (Hebrew: נמל התעופה דב הוז‎‎, Nemal HaTe'ufa Dov Hoz, Arabic: مطار دوف هوز‎‎) (IATA: SDVICAO: LLSD) is an airport located in Tel Aviv, Israel which mainly handles scheduled domestic flights to Eilat and Uvda (a.k.a. Ovda), northern Israel (Haifa and the Galilee), and the Golan Heights. It is the largest airport in Tel Aviv proper, and the second largest in the area, after Ben Gurion International Airport on the outskirts of Lod. The airport is named after Dov Hoz, one of the pioneers of Jewish aviation. The airport is expected to close by the end of 2018 after an agreement was struck re-purposing the land which houses it for residential apartments. Commercial flights will move to Ben Gurion Airport. The airport is a focus city for Arkia Israel Airlines and Israir Airlines.

In 1937, the mayor of Tel Aviv Israel Rokach asked the British mandate authorities for permission to create an airport in Palestine, promising to solve the transportation problem of Jews during the Arab revolt of 1936–39 when travelling from Tel Aviv through Arab territory to the main airport at Lydda, to catch Palestine Airways flights to Haifa, was difficult and dangerous. Works began on a plot of land north of the Yarkon River, Tel Aviv and when completed in October 1938, the airport served regular flights to Haifa, with the option of flights to Beirut. In 1940, the airport's name was changed to Sde Dov, in memory of Dov Hoz, one of the pioneers of Jewish aviation. Sde Dov was abandoned after Palestine Airways ceased operations in August 1940 and the site was used as a British Army base until December 1947 when with British permission the runway was reopened by Haganah.


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