Fertőszentmiklós Airport , also known as Meidl Airport, is a small airport

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 in the countryside southwest of Fertőszentmiklós

Fertoszentmiklós

- Location :Fertőszentmiklós is located on the Small Plain and it is part of the Transdanubian region. It has a population of 3873 people. Fertőszentmiklós is very well situated because it’s close to the Hungarian-Austrian border. The name of the town comes from the fusion of two smaller villages:...

, a city in Győr-Moson-Sopron

Gyor-Moson-Sopron

Győr-Moson-Sopron is the name of an administrative county in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia and Austria. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Komárom-Esztergom, Veszprém and Vas. The capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron county is Győr...

 county, Hungary

Hungary

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. It is near the border with Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 440 feet (134 m) 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 16/34 with an asphalt

Asphalt

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 surface measuring 985 by 23 m (3,231.6 by 75.5 ).

Only daylight VFR

Visual flight rules

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 flights with a filed flight plan

Flight plan

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are allowed. Customs services to allow international flights are available upon request.