Kempen Airport
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Kempen Airport or Budel Airport (Dutch: Vliegveld Kempen), also just called Budel after the nearby town, is a general aviation airport in the south-east of the Netherlands located Script error: No such module "convert". west of Weert and near the border with Belgium. Its main runway, 03/21, is a Script error: No such module "convert". long asphalt runway. There is a second runway for microlight aircraft only, located next to the main runway, and is Script error: No such module "convert". long.
The airport opened in 1970, initially only with a grass runway. An asphalt runway was created in 1991 of Script error: No such module "convert"., which was expanded later to its current length. Approach and runway lighting followed, making the airport suitable for IFR flights. With around 80,000 movements (a movement being a takeoff or landing) a year, it is amongst the busiest general aviation airports in the Netherlands. International flights are allowed to and from the airport and it is used extensively by business aircraft, accounting for 80% of all aircraft movements.
Accidents
- On October 26, 2009, a Pilatus PC-12 registered PH-RUL on its way to Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport crashed in a field shortly after take-off from Kempen Airport's Runway 21. The two people on board died. An investigation was performed by the Dutch Safety Board; however, the cause of the accident was never conclusively determined.[1][2] The aircraft was relatively new, having had its first flight in May of 2009.
References
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- ↑ Dutch Safety Board (2012) - PH-RUL English Version 2 - Aircraft crashes shortly after take-off, report retrieved 7 November 2013.
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