Mehrabad International Airport
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Tehran Mehrabad International Airport فرودگاه مهرآباد |
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| Airport type | Joint (Public/Military) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Iranian Airports Holding Company | ||||||||||||||||||
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Iran Civil Aviation Organization / Iran Air Force |
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| Serves | Tehran | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tehran, Iran | ||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1938 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Passenger Airlines
Cargo Airlines |
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| 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°ECoordinates: 35°41′21″N 51°18′49″E / 35.68917°N 51.31361°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | mehrabad |
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 THR
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Source: Iranian Airports Holding Company
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| Aircraft Movements | 109,750 |
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| Passengers | 13,941,798 |
| Cargo | 95,156 tons |
Passenger Airlines
Cargo Airlines
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 It was the primary airport of Tehran in both international and domestic passenger traffic but has been replaced by the new Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport for all of its scheduled international traffic.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.
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