Portimão Airport
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Portimão Airport is a small airport in Montes de Alvor, near the city of Portimão
in Algarve, Portugal
. The airport has one single short asphalt runway in the 11/29 direction and is mainly used by general aviation
, with parachuting
being common from the airfield. Though it has been given the IATA designator PRM, there are no scheduled flights from Portimão.
Portimão
Portimão is a Portuguese town located in the District of Faro in the Region of Algarve, the southern coast of Portugal. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão . In 1924, it was incorporated as a cidade and became known merely as Portimão. The town has 41,000 inhabitants and the Portimão...
in Algarve, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
. The airport has one single short asphalt runway in the 11/29 direction and is mainly used by general aviation
General aviation
General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...
, with parachuting
Parachuting
Parachuting, also known as skydiving, is the action of exiting an aircraft and returning to earth with the aid of a parachute. It may or may not involve a certain amount of free-fall, a time during which the parachute has not been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal...
being common from the airfield. Though it has been given the IATA designator PRM, there are no scheduled flights from Portimão.