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Naxos Island National Airport (LGNX/JNX) is a small single-runway aerodrome on the Cycladic island of Naxos in the South Aegean, lying close to the beach at Agios Prokopios only a few kilometres from Naxos Town. Opened in 1992, it handles mainly domestic scheduled and charter services and is of interest to visiting pilots for its short runway, tower-controlled visual operations, and dramatic island setting close to neighbouring Paros.
Naxos Island National Airport serves the Cycladic island of Naxos in the South Aegean and is identified by the codes LGNX (ICAO) and JNX (IATA). It sits a short distance from Agios Prokopios and about 3 km from Naxos Town, and opened in 1992 to provide the island with scheduled air links. For a visiting pilot it is a compact, single-runway field with a tower service, situated in an attractive but constrained island environment shared with the nearby airfield on Paros.
The airport lies in the South Aegean region of Greece, close to the settlement of Agios Prokopios and roughly 3 km from Naxos Town. Naxos sits within the Cyclades island group, and the neighbouring island of Paros, with its own airfield, lies close by across the strait to the west; pilots operating in the area should be alert to traffic and radio calls for both fields given their proximity.
Naxos has a single physical runway, 18/36, measuring 2,945 ft with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS. Field elevation is 10 ft.
No specific communications frequencies are published for Naxos Island National Airport. The field is known to operate with an air traffic control tower under the callsign "Naxos Tower", which has provided approach and traffic information to arriving aircraft. There is no ILS at the airport, so approaches are flown visually.
Documented traffic has flown visual approaches to runway 36, being handed off from area control to Naxos Tower for the final stages of the approach. Given the short runway and the proximity of Paros airfield, pilots should maintain a careful visual lookout and confirm which island's circuit and runway they are joining, since confusion between the two fields has occurred in the past.
The airport lies adjacent to Agios Prokopios, a well-known beach area, and is close to Naxos Town, some 3 km away, both of which serve as useful visual landmarks when approaching the island. The neighbouring island of Paros, with its own airfield and runway 35/17, is visible across the strait to the west and should not be mistaken for Naxos on approach.
Naxos Island National Airport opened in 1992 to provide the island with scheduled air connections. Its runway length has long been a limiting factor for larger regional aircraft: Sky Express's ATR 72-600s, for example, have been unable to take off at full load from the existing runway. The airport has also been the scene of notable incidents, including a 2009 event in which an Olympic Air ATR 42 on a visual approach to runway 36, after being handed to Naxos Tower, was seen lined up for the runway at Paros before being ordered to go around, and a 2019 occurrence in which a Sky Express ATR 42 ran off the paved surface while backtracking for departure, coming to rest with its main gear in a ditch; the airport was closed for the remainder of that day as a precaution.
Naxos continues to handle domestic scheduled and charter flights, operating from its single lit runway under tower control. The short runway length remains an operational constraint for larger turboprop types operating at full weight.