Flanders International Airport
Flanders International Airport, Flanders Airport or Kortrijk-Wevelgem International Airport is an airport located in the town of Wevelgem, West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium and partly also in the Bissegem section of the city of Kortrijk ( west.
History
The airport was created in 1916 by the Germans during the First World War.In 2022 the airport attracted media attention after Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman to fly across the Earth solo. She both started and finished the program on the airport's grounds.
Features
There is a passenger terminal with police and customs on demand.The airport runway is. Alongside a section of the airport is a business park, some of which is restricted to enterprises undertaking airport-related activities: several of the business park tenants have paid for direct private access to the runway. The aerodrome used to offer IFR procedures using ILS, NDB and DME radio beacons, but as of June 2017, these had been withdrawn from the AIP. In 2019 IFR operations were reestablished, now using GNSS-based RNAV procedures.