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Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport lies some 12 km northeast of Timișoara in the historical region of Banat, and is the main air gateway for western Romania. Named after Romanian aviation pioneer Traian Vuia, the field traces its aviation roots back to a German Zeppelin base of the First World War and has grown into a major international airport with a single long, ILS-equipped runway.
Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport serves the city of Timișoara in western Romania and is named in honour of Traian Vuia, a Romanian flight pioneer and native of Timiș County. Operated under the Romanian Civil Aeronautical Authority, the airport is the principal air transport hub for the Banat region and the wider Danube-Criș-Mureș-Tisa Euroregion. It is of interest to the visiting sim pilot both for its long hard-runway ILS approach and for a history stretching back to early German military aviation in the area.
The airport sits in the Ghiroda commune area, in the district known as Aeroport, bordering the village of Giarmata-Vii, about 12 km northeast of the centre of Timișoara. Road access from the city is via European route E70. As a large international airport it is served by its own approach, tower and ground control positions.
The airport has a single physical runway, 11/29, of hard surface construction and roughly 11,469 ft in length. Both runway ends are lit and the runway is equipped with an ILS approach, making it usable in a wide range of weather conditions.
Air traffic services are provided as Timisoara Approach, Timisoara Tower and Timisoara Ground. Timisoara APP operates on 120.1 MHz, Timisoara TWR also on 120.1 MHz, and Timisoara GND on 121.6 MHz. The runway is equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches.
The area's aviation history began between November 1915 and April 1917 with a German military airbase near Dudeștii Noi and Sânandrei, used for stationing, loading and repairing Zeppelins; it featured a large hangar, a hydrogen production facility and a Telefunken radio station, and airships based there took part in bombing raids on Bucharest, Ploiești, Chișinău and Thessaloniki. Timișoara's first civil airport opened on 10 July 1935 on the training ground of the local military garrison, with the first aircraft landing there on 17 July 1935; it was a modest facility with a technical building of planks and tarred cardboard. Plans for a permanent airport in the Cioca plainfield followed in the later 1930s, but the project was abandoned owing to financing difficulties and poor ground conditions, and the site was later used by the Central Meteorological Institute; the Cioca airfield today serves recreational and utility aviation. Since 1942 the airport has operated from its present site in Moșnița Nouă. During the communist period it was known as Giarmata Airport, after the neighbouring village, before being renamed Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport on 6 February 2003.
Today the airport functions as a major international airport and operating base for Wizz Air, and is regarded as a backup field for Belgrade, Bucharest and Budapest. Its single 11/29 runway, lit and ILS-equipped, supports scheduled airline operations as well as occasional diversions from other regional airports.