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Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport lies close to the centre of Bydgoszcz in north-central Poland, serving the city with a mix of scheduled airline traffic and general aviation on a large, well-equipped runway complex. Named after the composer and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski, it is both a public and military aerodrome with a long main runway fitted with an ILS.
Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport (ICAO EPBY, IATA BZG) serves the city of Bydgoszcz in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, lying only about 3.5 kilometres from the city centre and roughly 50 kilometres from Toruń. It is a joint public and military aerodrome operated by Port Lotniczy Bydgoszcz SA, and it takes its name from the Polish composer and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski. For a visiting VFR pilot the field is notable for its unusually varied runway layout, including a long hard-surfaced instrument runway alongside several shorter grass strips, reflecting its dual civil and military heritage.
The airport sits at an elevation of 233 feet and is positioned essentially within the built-up area of Bydgoszcz, close to the city centre, with Toruń lying some 50 kilometres away. As a licensed airport with control tower services it maintains its own controlled airspace around the field; pilots should expect to operate under the direction of Bydgoszcz Tower when in the vicinity.
The airport has five physical runways. The main runway, 08/26, is 8,160 feet long with a hard surface, lit, and equipped with an ILS on runway 26. A secondary hard-surfaced runway, 12/30, measures 3,415 feet and is lit. The remaining three runways are grass and lit: 11/29 at 2,134 feet, 08L/26R at 2,119 feet, and the shorter 03/21 at 1,513 feet.
Bydgoszcz Tower operates on 131 MHz, with an information frequency available on 128.5 MHz; the tower callsign is Bydgoszcz Tower. The main runway, 26, is served by an ILS, providing an instrument approach for arriving traffic.
The airport is named in honour of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, the Polish composer and statesman, and operates as both a public and military airport. Passenger traffic grew markedly from the late 1990s, rising from just over a thousand passengers in 1998 to over 400,000 by 2018, reflecting the airport's development from a modest regional field into a significant scheduled-service airport for the region.
Today the airport handles scheduled and charter services from airlines including LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa and Ryanair, connecting Bydgoszcz to destinations such as Warsaw, Frankfurt, Dublin and several UK cities, alongside its continuing military role and general aviation use of the shorter grass runways.
