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Brno-Tuřany Airport (LKTB) lies some 7.5 km southeast of Brno's city centre in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, and is the country's second-busiest airport. It offers a full-length hard runway with ILS alongside a shorter grass strip, making it accessible to a wide range of visual and instrument traffic.
Brno-Tuřany Airport, known locally as Letiště Brno-Tuřany, serves the city of Brno and the southeastern part of the Czech Republic. It is owned by the South Moravian Region and operated by Brno Airport Ltd, part of the Accolade investment group since November 2017. For a simulator pilot it offers an interesting mix of scheduled and charter airline traffic, cargo operations, and a long ILS-equipped concrete runway paired with a shorter grass strip, all within a compact and historically layered airfield.
The airfield sits about 7.5 km southeast of Brno's city centre, adjacent to the D1 highway that runs from Prague through Brno to Bohumín. It lies roughly 120 km from Vienna and Bratislava airports and from the smaller international fields at Ostrava and Pardubice. The presence of an area radar approach service, tower and ground control indicates that the airfield sits within controlled airspace appropriate to a medium-sized regional international airport.
Brno-Tuřany has two physical runways. The main runway, 09/27, is 8,674 feet long, has a hard surface, is lit, and is equipped with an ILS on the 27 approach. A secondary runway, 08/26, is 3,246 feet long with a grass surface and no lighting, offering an option for lighter traffic or those wishing to avoid the main hard runway.
Pilots should expect to work Brno Radar on approach at 127.35 MHz. On the ground, Turany Tower operates on 119.605 MHz and Turany Ground on 125.43 MHz. An ATIS broadcast, Turany ATIS, is available on 131.105 MHz for pre-departure and arrival information. The main runway 09/27 is equipped with an ILS on the 27 direction, supporting instrument approaches to that runway.
The airport was built during the 1950s to replace the older Brno airport at Slatina, located to the northeast of the current Tuřany site. Construction of a new departure hall began in 1967. During the 1980s the field was handed over for use by the Czechoslovak air force, and civilian operations were reduced to a minimum, with civil flights largely limited to periods coinciding with exhibitions and trade fairs at the Brno Exhibition Centre. A new departure hall and related facilities were completed in 1986. Following the fall of communism in 1989 the airport returned to full civil use and was operated by the state-owned Czech Airport Authority. Ownership later passed to the South Moravian Region, with operation handed to the private Brno Airport Ltd, which was acquired by the Accolade investment group in November 2017. In the late 2010s the regional government pursued negotiations over new international routes, including to Rome, Barcelona, Milan and Lviv, and briefly established the airline Blue Air Moravia in partnership with the city and region, though this venture was later cancelled.
Brno-Tuřany remains the second-busiest airport in the Czech Republic, handling 749,153 passengers in 2024. Scheduled and seasonal charter carriers including Ryanair, Smartwings, Air Montenegro, Sky Express, Tailwind Airlines and Freebird Airlines serve a range of European leisure destinations, while cargo operators such as ASL Airlines Belgium, Volga-Dnepr and the Antonov Design Bureau use Brno as a stopover point for freight movements. The airfield is tagged for customs handling, reflecting its status as an international point of entry.