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Valencia Airport (ICAO: LEVC, IATA: VLC) serves the city of Valencia from the town of Manises, about 8 kilometres to the west, and is operated by AENA as the principal gateway to Spain's Valencian Community. It offers a single long, ILS-equipped runway and full air traffic control, making it a straightforward but busy VFR and IFR destination for simulator pilots flying into the region.
Valencia Airport lies at Manises, just west of the city of Valencia, and is operated by AENA. It serves as a hub for Iberia Regional (Air Nostrum) and Vueling, and has long been an important base for Ryanair. For the simulator pilot it offers a single, long hard-surfaced runway with ILS on both directions, full tower and approach control, and a good mix of airline and regional traffic typical of a major Spanish gateway.
The airport sits at coordinates 39.4894N, 0.4817W at an elevation of 207 feet, in the town of Manises approximately 8 kilometres west of Valencia city centre. It is served by its own approach control on 120.1 MHz, placing arriving and departing traffic within controlled airspace associated with the field. The airport lies close to the A-3 motorway linking Valencia with Madrid and the A-7 coastal route towards Barcelona, both useful as general orientation features when approaching from the east or west.
The airport has a single physical runway, 12/30, of hard surface construction and equipped with lighting and ILS on both directions. Published landing distances differ between the two ends, at 10,513 feet for runway 12 and 9,547 feet for runway 30, indicating a displaced threshold on one direction. A former runway, 04/22, is no longer in operational use and carries no ILS; its south-western end has since been given over to a helipad.
Radio services at Valencia comprise Approach on 120.1 MHz, ATIS on 121.075 MHz, Ground on 121.7 MHz and Tower on 118.55 MHz. The active runway, 12/30, is equipped with ILS in both directions, supporting instrument approaches to either end.
The airport is bordered by the A-3 and A-7 motorways, useful as line features for pilots orientating themselves on approach, and lies immediately adjacent to the town of Manises, a few kilometres west of Valencia's city centre.
Valencia Airport opened in 1933, with its first regular scheduled flight following in 1934. It became the main base of Iberia's regional carrier Air Nostrum, and Ryanair operated a hub there from 2007 until closing it in November 2008 amid a dispute over subsidies with the airport authorities, before reopening a base in 2011. In June 2009 Delta Air Lines launched the airport's first transatlantic service, a Boeing 757 route to New York, which was made seasonal within weeks due to low ticket sales and was withdrawn entirely in September 2012 because of poor demand and rising fuel costs. In June 2025 Air Transat began seasonal flights to Montreal. The airport's original second runway, 04/22, has since fallen out of use, with its south-western end converted into a helipad.
Valencia Airport remains active as a major commercial airport, serving as a hub for Iberia Regional (Air Nostrum) and Vueling and hosting a substantial Ryanair operation alongside numerous other European carriers. It operates with full tower and approach control services and a single active runway, 12/30, equipped with ILS in both directions.