Pančevo Airport

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Pančevo Airport (Aerodrom Pančevo), ICAO LYPA, is a civil airport near Pančevo, Serbia, close to Belgrade. It has no IATA code. The airport sits about 77 meters above sea level at coordinates 44.90222°N, 20.63528°E.

Runway
- One grass runway (13L/31R), 1,000 meters long and about 60 meters wide.

What it’s like today
- Mostly used for general aviation.
- Utva Aviation Industry, a local aircraft maker in Pančevo, uses it for testing light sport and training aircraft.

A brief history
- March 15, 1923: Franko-Rumen company began operations from Pančevo.
- March 25, 1923: Paris–Istanbul flights via Pančevo started, the first international flights to or from Belgrade.
- September 9, 1923: First Belgrade–Bucharest scheduled flight, the first commercial night flight in aviation history.
- 1925: CFRNA renamed CIDNA and used Pančevo until May 1927.

Today, Pančevo Airport remains a small, important site for general aviation and aircraft testing.