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Warsaw Radom Airport (EPRA) is a joint civil-military aerodrome on the eastern edge of Radom, roughly 100 km south of Warsaw, that reopened as a low-cost relief airport for the capital in April 2023 after a long and troubled history. For a visiting VFR or IFR pilot it offers a single long hard-surfaced runway with ILS, AFIS coverage, and a mix of scheduled airline and military traffic.
Warsaw Radom Airport, known locally as Radom-Sadków, sits on the eastern outskirts of Radom in Masovian Voivodeship and has served as an airfield since the 1920s. It is a joint civil-military facility, sharing its runway and taxiways with Polish Air Force training operations, and since 2023 has operated as a designated relief airport for Warsaw Chopin, acting as a focus city for LOT Polish Airlines. Its combination of military heritage, a single instrument-equipped runway and modern low-cost terminal facilities makes it an interesting stop for a simulator pilot exploring central Poland.
The airport lies about 3 km east of Radom city centre and around 100 km south of Warsaw, within Masovian Voivodeship. As a joint civil-military aerodrome it sits within controlled airspace associated with its instrument approach and military flying activity; pilots should expect coordination with both civil and military traffic in the vicinity.
Radom has a single physical runway, 07/25, with a hard surface that is lit along its length. The declared length differs by direction: runway 25 measures 6,544 ft and is equipped with an ILS, while runway 07 measures 5,866 ft. Field elevation is 610 ft, with the airport centred on coordinates 51.3889 N, 21.2117 E.
An Aerodrome Flight Information Service (AFIS) is provided on 128.500 MHz, offering INFO service to arriving and departing traffic. The airport is equipped with an ILS on runway 25, and a DVOR/DME navigation system was installed in December 2014 to support instrument approaches.
Construction of the airfield began in May 1929 as a training base for Poland's first civilian pilot training school. In April 1932 it passed to the Ministry of Military Affairs, which expanded the site with hangars, barracks and a shooting range and began training military pilots and paratroopers, a role that continued until the outbreak of the Second World War. In the war's opening days German forces bombed the airfield, destroying aircraft and hangars and forcing an evacuation; during the occupation the Luftwaffe used it to train pilots for the Eastern Front, and by the war's end the site was mined and heavily damaged. Polish military aviation returned to Sadków in March 1945, and pilot training has continued there ever since. In 2006 the Radom city council established a company to prepare the site for civilian use, and after a lease agreement and certification process, scheduled airline operations began in 2015 with airBaltic and Czech Airlines, though both withdrew within months owing to very low passenger loads; a resumption of Prague flights followed in December 2015. The struggling regional airport closed on 1 January 2019 and its terminal was demolished later that year to make way for a rebuilt facility. The site was redeveloped by the state airports operator as a relief airport for Warsaw Chopin, with construction completing in 2022 and the new Warsaw Radom Airport officially opening on 27 April 2023.
Warsaw Radom Airport now operates as a joint civil-military airport and serves as a focus city for LOT Polish Airlines, handling scheduled domestic and international flights alongside continuing military flying training. The terminal, built from scratch after the demolition of the earlier facility, has a stated capacity of up to one million passengers a year, with potential to grow further. The airport is open daily from 6:00 to 22:00.
