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Vigo Airport
Airport Directory » Spain » Vigo » Vigo AirportVigo-Peinador International Airport (IATA: VGO, ICAO: LEVX) is eight kilometre east from the centre of Vigo, and is located in the municipalities of Redondela, Vigo and Mos, Spain. In 2007, 1.405.968 riders and 1.953 metric ton of goods passed through the airport.
History
By 1927 the Spanish Government got cognisant of the necessity of having a usages airport in Galicia, and as a 1st measure the harbor of Vigo was conditioned for hidroaviation in March 1929 and at the same clip a "marine airport" was made and set about functioning at nearby Cesantes beach; meanwhile the building of a bigger inland airport at Peinador was started. The Town Hall of Vigo underwent the building with back up from several local corporations and industries but deficit of monetary funds would have rendered the airport impossible to complete without the unselfish aid of citizens from nearby Vigo and the cities of Lavaderos and Mos, who rendered services for free in many examples.
The neighbor Santiago de Compostela Airport, also medium-sized, opened its 1st regular path with the capital Madrid in 1937; that fact gravely hadicapped Vigo airport as its demand was greatly cut down, and building was about arrested. After yr of bureaucratic battle and talks from the City Hall of Vigo, the then named Ministerio del Aire to the full take for granted the building, re-started in 1947 and finished in 1952. Operations set about on 20th April 1954 with a 1,500-meter landing track, with Iberia winging a regular path to/from Madrid with Douglas DC-3 aircraft. After a few calendar month Iberia reached the path to Aviaco.
The 1970's increase of traffic guided to a further development programme, including the building in 1973 of a new control tower, a new rider depot in 1974, in 1975 an independent influence constitute and in 1976 the apron infinite and parkland locations were both increased and taxi strip continued. A few yr after the landing track was lenghtened so DC-9 series aircraft were able to use the airport. As a effect, in November 1981 the airport had its 1st international voyage to Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport.
In 1995 a new depot construction was complete and apron was enlarged once more, and in 2004 a major development was the opening of the ILS true cat.II/III, much demanded due to the usual bad weather condition and nearby terrain troubles of the airport, having an mean of 80 solar days of fog per yr.
As of April 2009, a new parking space is undergoing building, and depot expansion is be after due to the great increase in rider volume in the last yr.
(Source: Aviación Comercial mag, nº21)
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