Flight Simulator Flights at LGKV Kavala Alexander the Great International Airport

Kavala Alexander the Great International Airport (LGKV/KVA) serves the city of Kavala in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, offering a pair of substantial parallel hard-surfaced runways. For a visiting VFR or IFR pilot it presents long, well-lit runways but no ILS, so radio calls and visual awareness are the primary means of arrival and departure planning.

Overview

Kavala Alexander the Great International Airport, identified as LGKV with the IATA code KVA, lies close to the city of Kavala in the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region of northern Greece. It is a sizeable field with two long parallel hard runways, making it a useful and capacious destination or diversion point for pilots operating in this part of the Aegean coast.

Airspace & Location

The airport sits at Kavala in the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region of Greece, at coordinates 40.9139N, 24.6197E and an elevation of 13 feet.

Runways

The airfield has two parallel hard-surfaced runways, both lit. The primary pair, 05/23, measures 9826 feet in length. A second, closely parallel pair, 05L/23R, measures 9814 feet. There is no ILS installed on the field.

Radio & Navigation

Air-to-ground communication is available on 563.7 MHz. Approach control, callsign Kavala Approach, operates on radio frequency 122.1 MHz, while Kavala Tower operates on 118.4 MHz.