Mehrabad Airport

Tehran Mehrabad International Airport فرودگاه مهرآباد
IATA: THR ICAO: OIII
Summary
Airport type	Joint (Public/Military)
Owner	Iranian Airports Holding Company
Operator	Iran Civil Aviation Organization  / Iran Air Force
Serves	Tehran
Location	Tehran, Iran
Opened	1938
Focus city for	Passenger Airlines Ata Airlines Atrak Air Caspian Airlines Iran Air Iran Air Tours Iran Aseman Airlines Kish Air Mahan Air Meraj Airlines Qeshm Air Taban Airlines Zagros Airlines Cargo Airlines Iran Air Cargo Iran Aseman Airlines Cargo Pouya Cargo Air Payam Air
Time zone	IRST (UTC+3:30)
• Summer (DST)	IRDT (UTC+04:30)
Elevation AMSL	3,962 ft / 1,208 m
Coordinates	35°41′21″N 51°18′49″E / 35.68917°N 51.31361°E / 35.68917; 51.31361Coordinates: 35°41′21″N 51°18′49″E / 35.68917°N 51.31361°E / 35.68917; 51.31361
Website	mehrabad.airport.ir
Map
THR Location of airport in Iran
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 09/27 1,556 474 Concrete 11L/29R 13,098 3,992 Asphalt 11R/29L 13,248 4,038 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft Movements 109,750 Passengers 13,941,798 Cargo 95,156 tons
Source: Iranian Airports Holding Company

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Tehran Mehrabad International Airport (Persian: فرودگاه مهرآباد‎‎) (IATA: THR, ICAO: OIII), also known as Tehran-Mehrabad, is an airport that serves Tehran, Iran. It was the primary airport of Tehran in both international and domestic passenger traffic but has been replaced by the new Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport for all of its scheduled international traffic. Mehrabad, however, is still by far the busiest airport in Iran in terms of passenger traffic and aircraft movements, handling 13,617,094 passengers in 2014. It is capable of handling wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340-600. The airport is also the sole gateway used by the Government of Iran, a service provided by Meraj Airlines out of VIP and CIP terminals.

The airport was first time used as an airfield for aviation club planes in 1938, then after World War II along with becoming internationally recognized by joining Iran civil aviation organization to the ICAO in 1949, the airport also became an air force base.

Newly delivered Republic F-84G Thunderjets (fighter) and Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (trainer) arrived, May 1957 and April 1956, respectively. Iranian Air Force. In 1955 just after construction of first asphalt paved runway a new terminal building (Current Terminal 1) for both international and domestic flights was designed and constructed. Among the designers of the initial modern buildings of the airport was the famous architect William Pereira.