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Oradea International Airport (LROD/OMR) lies in northwestern Romania's Bihor County, some 5 km southwest of the city of Oradea and close to the Hungarian border. It is a modest but growing regional gateway, home to scheduled and charter services as well as a NATO Centre of Excellence and a based air ambulance helicopter, and offers a single long hard runway that is straightforward for visiting VFR and IFR traffic alike.
Oradea International Airport serves the city of Oradea in the Crisana region of northwestern Romania. It is a government-operated civil airport handling scheduled and charter airline traffic, alongside NATO Centre of Excellence flying and a based medical evacuation helicopter, making it a mixed-use field of interest to visiting pilots despite its regional scale.
The airport sits about 5 km southwest of Oradea, in Bihor County, close to one of the principal road and rail crossings into Hungary and near the European route E60. It lies close enough to the border that it competes for regional traffic with Debrecen Airport just across the frontier in Hungary.
Oradea has a single physical runway, 01/19, 5903 ft (about 1800 m) long with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS at the field.
The airport provides both approach and tower services on the same frequency, 118.455 MHz, covering the Oradea Approach and Oradea Tower functions. There is no ILS available for instrument approaches.
The civilian airport at Oradea became operational in 1938. A major modernisation programme followed in the 2010s: Bihor County contracted consultancy work in 2009 on runway extension, a cargo terminal and terminal renovation, and a 30 million euro EU financing agreement was signed on 7 February 2014 to fund a new 2100 m runway and two rapid-exit taxiways. Construction began on 20 October 2014 and the runway modernisation was completed on 30 October 2015. Since April 2009 the airport has hosted the NATO Centre of Excellence in Oradea, with all associated aircraft movements using the field. The airport has also seen several notable incidents over the decades: a TAROM Antonov 24B crashed into mountains near Oradea on 4 February 1970 while inbound from Bucharest with 14 of 15 aboard killed; a TAROM Ilyushin 14 was hijacked shortly after departing Oradea on 27 May 1971, with the hijackers demanding passage to Austria; a Romanian Air Force Antonov An-26 was written off in a 1994 takeoff accident after the landing gear was retracted prematurely by a student flight engineer; and on 16 January 2009 a Gulfstream G200 overran the runway, sustaining nose and landing-gear damage with all twelve occupants uninjured. In May 2025 a new 13,000 square metre cargo terminal opened, first served by an MNG Airlines Airbus A321 flight to Istanbul, followed the next day by an Airbus A300 service on the same route.
Oradea today operates as a large regional airport with scheduled and charter airline service, including flights to Bucharest, Munich, Warsaw, Rome, Dortmund and Bergamo among others, plus seasonal charter routes to destinations such as Antalya, Hurghada, Heraklion and Monastir. A dedicated cargo terminal opened in 2025 to serve strategic routes toward Hungary. The field also hosts NATO Centre of Excellence flying activity and a based MEDIVAC helicopter operated for the emergency services of Bihor and neighbouring counties, transporting patients to trauma centres in Bucharest.