Kärdla Airport

Kärdla Airport Kärdla lennujaam
IATA: KDL ICAO: EEKA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SC Kärdla Airport
Serves	Kärdla, Estonia
Elevation AMSL	18 ft / 5 m
Coordinates	58°59′27″N 022°49′51″E / 58.99083°N 22.83083°E / 58.99083; 22.83083Coordinates: 58°59′27″N 022°49′51″E / 58.99083°N 22.83083°E / 58.99083; 22.83083
Map
EEKA Location in Estonia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 1,520 4,987 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Passengers 11,073 Aircraft movements 1,488
Sources: Estonian AIP

Kärdla Airport (Estonian: Kärdla lennujaam, IATA: KDL, ICAO: EEKA) is an airport in Estonia. The airport is situated 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) east of the town of Kärdla on Hiiumaa island.

The airport has an asphalt runway, 14/32, and is 1,520 m × 30 m (4,987 ft × 98 ft). The runway was upgraded in 1998.

Kärdla Airport opened in 1963. During the next years there was fairly high activity at the airport, with regular flights to Tallinn, Haapsalu, Vormsi, Kuressaare, Riga, Pärnu, Viljandi and Tartu, and charter flights to Murmansk, Vilnius and Kaunas. 24,335 passengers travelled via Kärdla Airport in 1987. Air traffic sank dramatically after Estonia became independent in 1991, and in 1995 only 727 passengers travelled via the airport. Since then the traffic has increased again, and 10,551 passengers travelled via the airport in 2010.

The airport has annual Flight Days in the first weekend of August.

On 23 November 2001, an airplane with 17 people on board crashed on its way from Tallinn to Kärdla, near Palade at Hiiumaa. Two people died in the crash. The investigation and the trial still continues.