<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Arad International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">On the land of the Gai suburb there already was an infrastructure with a runway, hangar and a terminal, from the military campaign from 1917. Here, on 14 July 1912, a big meeting took place when Aurel Vlaicu, a pioneer in Romanian aviation, returned from Aspen Vienna and he was seen by his fellow citizens as a national hero.</p>
<p class="blog-para">As a result of some negotiations that took place in order to build a new airport, on 30 May 1935 the civil municipal aviation give the land from the Ceala suburb where the constructions will start for building the infrastructure. The construction work ended in 1936 and the official inauguration of the new airport took place on 14 November 1937. From that moment all the air traffic was conducted on this location and the landings and taking off happened on a grass runway. In 1953 a concrete runway, 2000 meters long, was built, as the increased traffic demanded it. The A and D taxiways were built at the same time as the runway. The lighting system was rebuilt in 1954 using Elba lamps.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The current runway is east&ndash;west, concrete, with dimensions of 2000 &times; 45 m, and is endowed with a state-of-the-art IDMAN lighting system consisting of marginal and axial light, threshold lights, approach lightings on both directions of operation and a Category II instrument landing system.</p>
<p><img class="img-fluid p-lg-0 rounded w-100" title="History Arad International Airport" src="../../../main/img/airport/arad/a.webp" alt="History Arad International Airport"></p>
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<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 pt-5">Facilities Arad International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The Arad Airport Cargo Terminal, the largest of its kind in western Romania, is a major component of the Arad International Airport and is located nearby the Arad Free Zone,</p>
<p class="blog-para">being able to take the air freight traffic that connects Western Europe to the Middle East. It is located close to the Hungarian border.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The Arad International Airport Cargo Terminal and platform seen from the A1 motorway.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Its location permits easy access for the companies operating in the counties near Arad (Bihor, Alba, Hunedoara &ndash; Romania and B&eacute;k&eacute;s, Csongr&aacute;d &ndash; Hungary) for transporting cargo.</p>
<p class="blog-para">This objective can take over the air freight traffic, with all the facilities on the air-road transport, by making use of the operating - parking Cargo type platforms, the covered area for depositing the cargo that permits also the customs checking, the parking platform for the airplanes, and it provides the specific units for both the air and land transporters. The apron is 16020sqm, 41/R/C/W/T and offers the possibility of parking 3 class "C" and "D" ICAO airplanes at the same time. The terminal has a total surface of 5000 sqm, 13 access gates to the auto loading/unloading ramp and 4 access gates to the airplane loading/unloading ramp. Its capacity for depositing (arrival, departure) is 300 to/day and the traffic capacity (arrival, departure) is 50 to/hour. The parking area of a surface of 8430 sqm can offer parking spaces for 32 cars and 5 cargo trucks, having also 2 oil separators.</p>
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