Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport
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Constanța "Mihail Kogălniceanu" International Airport Aeroportul Internaţional Constanța Mihail Kogălniceanu |
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | S. N. Aeroportul International Mihail Kogalniceanu Constanta S.A. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Constanța | ||||||||||
| Location | Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 353 ft / 108 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 44°21′44″N 028°29′18″E / 44.36222°N 28.48833°ECoordinates: 44°21′44″N 028°29′18″E / 44.36222°N 28.48833°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www.mk-airport.ro | ||||||||||
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Source: Romanian AIP at EUROCONTROL, Statistics
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| Passengers | 63,329 |
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| Aircraft movements | 2,227 |
Mihail Kogălniceanu Airport (IATA: CND, ICAO: LRCK) is situated in south-east Romania, in the commune of Mihail Kogălniceanu, 26 kilometres (16 mi) north-northwest of Constanța. It is the main airport of Northern Dobruja region and it provides access to Constanța County, the Port of Constanța and Black Sea resorts. The airport is named in honour of Mihail Kogălniceanu, the 3rd Prime Minister of Romania.
The military sector of the Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport is currently an annex of the 86th Air Base. Since 1999 it has occasionally been used by the United States Air Force.
Built in 1955, as a military airbase, Mihail Kogălniceanu Airport opened for civil operations in May 1960, when it replaced the old Palas Airport (founded in 1932).
A passenger terminal with a capacity of 200 passengers per hour was inaugurated in 1962, followed, five years later, by an expansion to a processing capacity of 300 pax/hour. In 1974, a major expansion increased the processing capacity to 1,000 pax/hour.
Use of the airport peaked at 778,766 passengers in 1979, when foreign tourism to the Romanian Riviera was at a high. Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport handled 63,329 passengers in 2015, which represents a 66.9% increase over the previous year.
Blue Air announced on 5th September 2016 that a base will be opened on 27th April 2017. One 737 will be based here.
The airport was home of the former Romanian Air Force 57th Air Base, which was the only unit operating the Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter aircraft. The base was disbanded in April 2004 and all the 18 MiG-29s remain in open storage at the airport. It has been used by the US Military since 1999. In 2003, it became one of four Romanian military facilities that have been used by U.S. military forces as a staging area for the invasion of and ongoing counter-insurgency efforts in Iraq, operated by the 458th Air Expeditionary Group. It was intended to become one of the main operating bases of United States Army Europe's Joint Task Force East (JTF-E), a rotating task force initially to be provided by the U.S. 2nd Cavalry Regiment, which was to eventually grow to a brigade sized force. The JTF-E concept has been reduced to the Army-only Task Force East, but the base still retains an important role, given added weight by the 2014 Crimean crisis.
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