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LGIRHERMajor airport

Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport

Heraklion, Greece

Elevation
115 ft
Runways
2
Longest
8,904 ft
Position
35.340, 25.180
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Warning: pilot use only. For flight simulation use only. This information is not maintained to any aeronautical standard and must never be used for real world navigation or flight planning.

The field

09271230N1 km
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
LGTLLGSTLGIRN
2 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • LGTL11
  • LGST46
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 2 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 14,042 ft

    Runway, all told

    2.3 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 14th

    Longest in Greece

    of 29 airfields in the country

  • 1551st

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 12th

    Highest in Greece

    115 ft above sea level

  • 11 nm

    Nearest airfield

    LGTL, bearing 141

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    1 of 2 lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
09/278,904 ft148 ftAsphaltYes
12/305,138 ft164 ftAsphaltNo

Frequencies

  • ATISATIS127.550
  • GNDKAZANTZAKIS GND121.700
  • TWRKAZANTZAKIS TWR120.850
  • APPIRAKLION APP123.975
  • A/GKAZANTZAKIS RDO563.700
  • DIRIRAKLION DIRECTOR118.025
  • TRSAIRAKLION RADAR123.975

Real world frequencies, listed for reference. What is actually staffed on the network appears on the map and in the client.

Fly from here

  • Plan a leg out of LGIR
  • LGIR to LGTL, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at LGIR yet. When an event uses this field it appears here, with what was flown and who worked it.

What is on the calendar

Nearby airfields

  • LGTL(*)Kasteli Hellenic Air Force Base11 nm
  • LGSTSitia Airport46 nm
  • LGSAChania International Airport52 nm
  • LGSRSantorini International Airport65 nm
  • LGKPKarpathos Airport96 nm
  • LGMKMykonos Island National Airport126 nm

Elsewhere

  • Airport website
  • Wikipedia
  • Airport, runway and frequency data from OurAirports, which is public domain. Weather from NOAA aviation weather.