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Kärdla Airport Kärdla lennujaam
IATA: KDL ICAO: EEKA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SC Kärdla Airport
Serves	Kärdla, Estonia
Elevation AMSL	18 ft / 5 m
Coordinates	58°59′27″N 022°49′51″E / 58.99083°N 22.83083°E / 58.99083; 22.83083
Map
EEKALocation in Estonia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 1,520 4,987 Asphalt
Statistics (2024)
Passengers 15,307 Cargo (tonnes) 0,0
Sources: Estonian AIP

Kärdla Airport (Estonian: Kärdla lennujaam, IATA: KDL, ICAO: EEKA) is an airport in Estonia. The airport is situated 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) east of the town of Kärdla on Hiiumaa island.

The airport has one asphalt runway, 14/32, and is 1,520 m × 30 m (4,987 ft × 98 ft). The runway was upgraded in 1998.

Overview

Kärdla Airport opened in 1963. During the next years there was fairly high activity at the airport, with regular flights to Tallinn, Haapsalu, Vormsi, Kuressaare, Riga, Pärnu, Viljandi, and Tartu, and charter flights to Murmansk, Vilnius, and Kaunas. 24,335 passengers travelled via Kärdla Airport in 1987. Air traffic sank dramatically after Estonia became independent in 1991, and in 1995, only 727 passengers traveled via the airport. Since then, traffic has increased, and 10,551 passengers travelled via the airport in 2010.

The airport has annual Flight Days in the first weekend of August.

On November 23, 2001, two died after an Antonov An-28 crashed en route to Kärdla. An investigation found that pilot error was the cause, but a court later ruled that bad weather – not the pilot – was responsible for the crash.

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

List of the busiest airports in the Baltic states

References

1. ^ "eAIP Estonia". Estonian Air Navigation Services (ANS). Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
2. , Plane Crash Info Archived March 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
3. Teesalu, Ingrid (2011-09-28). "Court Closes Decade-Long Airplane Crash Case". ERR.ee. Retrieved 2022-04-11.

External links

• Welcome to Hiiumaa!
• Official website Archived 2021-05-16 at the Wayback Machine

• Estonia
• Aviation

• Airports built in the Soviet Union
• Airports in Estonia
• Buildings and structures in Hiiu County
• 1963 establishments in Estonia
• Hiiumaa Parish