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Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport (LJMB) is Slovenia's second international aerodrome, sitting in Hoce-Slivnica some 5 km south of Maribor and equipped with ILS on its main asphalt runway. Once a grass aeroclub strip dating to 1953, it grew into a full commercial field in 1976 and today is primarily a busy centre for flight training. Its long paved runway, parallel grass strip and instrument approach make it a straightforward and interesting destination for VFR and IFR sim flights alike.
Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport lies in the municipality of Hoce-Slivnica, close to the village of Orehova Vas, about 5 km south of the city of Maribor in Slovenia's Styria region. It is operated on a temporary management contract by DRI upravljanje investicij, d.o.o. on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure, and is named after Edvard Rusjan, the Slovene pioneer aviator and aircraft designer. For the simulator pilot it offers a rare Slovenian ILS approach alongside a grass runway used by the resident aeroclub, making it a versatile field for both airliner-style approaches and light-aircraft training circuits.
The airport sits some 5 km south of Maribor and about 9 km from Maribor railway station, on a bearing of 168 degrees from the field. It is the second Slovenian airport, after Ljubljana, equipped for international commercial traffic with an ILS. No further detail on the surrounding airspace classification or FIR boundaries is given in the sources.
Maribor has two physical runways. The main runway, 14/32, is a hard-surfaced strip 8,190 ft (2,500 m) long, lit, and served by an ILS on runway 32. A secondary grass runway, 15L/33R, runs 3,943 ft in length alongside it, giving the field a paved runway for larger or instrument traffic and a grass strip for training and light aircraft operations. Field elevation is 863 ft.
The airport operates on a combined Aerodrome/Approach/Tower frequency of 119.2 MHz. Runway 32 is equipped with an ILS Category I instrument landing system, which was renovated in 2005 along with the airport's distribution transformer station.
The source material gives no specific published circuit heights, joining procedures or noise abatement restrictions for Maribor beyond the presence of the ILS on runway 32 and the parallel grass strip used for training circuits.
No published visual reference points are given in the available material. Pilots can use the city of Maribor, some 5 km to the north, and the airport's position roughly 9 km from Maribor railway station on a 168-degree bearing as general orientation features.
The airfield's origins lie with the Letalski center Maribor, Slovenia's oldest aeroclub, founded in 1927. In 1953 the aeroclub built a grass aerodrome at the present site, known as Skoke, to replace the former Tezno civil-military airfield, which had become too dangerous to operate from. Between 1953 and 1976 more than 1,000 pilots were trained there on grass alone. The airport was opened for international commercial traffic on 29 May 1976, becoming Slovenia's second airport after Ljubljana capable of handling international services. Under Yugoslavia it was served by the state carrier JAT, linking Belgrade, Tivat and Adriatic coast airports such as Dubrovnik and Split, while Misr Overseas Airways connected it to Cairo. Passenger and cargo traffic peaked in the early 1990s at around 85,000 passengers and 700 tonnes of cargo a year. The runway was renovated in 1999 and the apron in 2000. In 2005 the ILS Category I system was upgraded. Slovenian Spirit offered scheduled flights to Paris and Salzburg until the operator's insolvency in 2006, and Ryanair briefly served London-Stansted from June 2007 to March 2008. The airport was renamed Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport in 2008 at the suggestion of citizen Silvo Skornik, honouring the pioneer aviator born in Trieste in 1886, who built and flew some of the earliest Slovene aircraft designs before his death in 1911. A new passenger terminal opened in November 2012. Ownership passed through several hands over the following years, including Prevent Global, AvioFun, Delavska hranilnica and SHS Aviation, the last of which briefly operated Split and Dubrovnik services with its own airline in 2017. Since July 2019 the airport has been under the temporary management of DRI upravljanje investicij.
The airport is now used mainly by flight schools for training purposes, reflecting its aeroclub heritage. It offers line maintenance and parking or storage facilities for stored aircraft, including ATR, Embraer, CRJ and A320-family types through a collaboration with the Slovenian MRO Aero4M, with other types possible on request. No specific fuel availability, operating hours or PPR requirement are stated in the available material.