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Huesca-Pirineos Airport lies in the Aragonese plain south-east of the city of Huesca, between the villages of Monflorite-Lascasas and Alcala del Obispo. Operated by Aena, it is a lightly used general-interest aerodrome with a long main runway for occasional commercial and general aviation traffic and a shorter parallel strip dedicated to gliding, making it a quiet but characterful VFR destination for visiting pilots.
Huesca-Pirineos is an Aena-operated aerodrome serving the province of Huesca in Aragon, Spain. Despite being built to serve the Pyrenean ski resorts, it sees very little scheduled traffic and today is best known for its gliding activity, which has roots on the site going back to the 1930s. For a simulator pilot it offers an interesting mix of a long, lit hard runway alongside a much shorter secondary strip reserved for gliders, set against the backdrop of the Pyrenees foothills.
The airport sits in Aragon, roughly 9 to 10.5 kilometres south-east of the city of Huesca, near the villages of Monflorite-Lascasas and Alcala del Obispo. Approach control in the area is provided by Zaragoza Approach on 119.3 MHz, and local aerodrome information is provided by Huesca Information on 128.95 MHz.
Huesca-Pirineos has two paved runway pairs. The main runway, 12R/30L, is a hard-surfaced, lit strip 6,912 feet long used for commercial and general aviation movements. A shorter parallel hard runway, 12L/30R, at around 2,015 to 2,016 feet, is used for gliding operations. The field elevation is 1,745 feet.
Pilots should call Huesca Information (callsign) on 128.95 MHz for aerodrome flight information service, and Zaragoza Approach on 119.3 MHz when operating in the wider approach environment. The airport has published instrument procedures based on a VOR/DME installed at the field, which came into force in May 2007, though there is no ILS.
Circuit traffic is segregated by runway use: glider circuits are restricted to the north of the airfield, while motor aircraft circuits are kept to the south. The main runway, 30L/12R, handles commercial and powered traffic, while the parallel 30R/12L strip is used specifically for gliding.
The airfield can be identified by its position between the villages of Monflorite-Lascasas and Alcala del Obispo, south-east of the city of Huesca, with the Pyrenees visible to the north as a distant backdrop.
Gliding activity on the site dates back to 1934, when proceedings began for the creation of the Provincial Gliding School of Huesca, building on the earlier work of the Huesca Flying Club, founded by a group of aviation enthusiasts in 1930 at Saso de Loreto near the city. The aerodrome now known as the Monflorite-Alcala del Obispo Flying Centre grew from these origins. It was declared an airport of general interest and brought into the Aena network by order of 20 October 2000, with a Master Plan approved in 2001 and extended in 2002 to improve its future viability. The airport opened for visual flight operations in December 2006, and in May 2007 new instrumental procedures based on a newly installed VOR/DME came into force, enabling commercial flights.
Huesca-Pirineos has no scheduled airline services; passenger numbers have historically been very low, at times among the lowest in the Aena network, though movements include general aviation and gliding activity. The main runway, 30L/12R, is used for commercial and powered traffic, while the shorter 30R/12L runway is dedicated to gliding, with circuits kept to the south for motor aircraft and to the north for gliders. Operations outside the airport's published operating hours require prior arrangement with the airport.