Alexandria Airport (Greece)
Encyclopedia
Alexandria Airport is a military airport
located near Alexandria
(or Alexandreia), a city in the prefecture
of Imathia in Greece
.
of 8 metres (26 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 13/31 with an asphalt
surface measuring 1800 by 30 m (5,905.5 by 98.4 ).
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
located near Alexandria
Alexandreia
Alexandreia is a city in the Imathia peripheral unit, Greece.-Municipality:The municipality Alexandreia was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 4 former municipalities, that became municipal units:* Alexandreia...
(or Alexandreia), a city in the prefecture
Prefectures of Greece
During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit...
of Imathia in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 8 metres (26 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
designated 13/31 with an asphalt
Asphalt
Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...
surface measuring 1800 by 30 m (5,905.5 by 98.4 ).
Nearest airports
The three nearest airports are:- Nea Kavala Airport – 38 km (38,000,000,000,000 nm) north-northeast
- Thessaloniki Airport – 43 km (43,000,000,000,000 nm) east-southeast
- Sedes AirportSedes AirportSedes Airport is a military airport 15 km east of Thessaloniki, Greece, and 3 km northwest of Thessaloniki's Makedonia International Airport. Sedes airport started operating during the Balkan Wars and has since been exclusively used by the Hellenic Air Force. Nowadays it also houses an aviation...
– 47 km (47,000,000,000,000 nm) east-southeast