Linz - Blue Danube Airport / Hoersching
| Continent: Europe | Country: Austria |
| Blue Danube Airport Linz | |
| Location | Hoersching Austria |
| IATA code | LNZ |
| ICAO code | LOWL |
| Airport type | Mixed-Use Commercial |
| Website | [www.linz-airport.com www.linz-airport.com] |
| Overview map | [ ] |
| Communications | |
| Tower | 118.800 |
| Ground | |
| Clearance | 129.125 |
| Approach | 119.750 |
| ATIS | 128.125 |
The Blue Danube Airport, termed after the river Danube, or Flughafen Linz is located in Hörsching, about 15 kilometres southwest of the provincial capital city of Upper Austria, Linz. The airport is equipped with an asphalt runway ( 3000 x 60m / 9843 x 197ft ) with the magnetic heading 09/27 and a parallel grass runway (660 x 45m). On runway 29 an ILS with Cat IIIb is installed, heading 09 an ILS with Cat II. There a two taxiways to the commercial area (F & G). The apron has a size of 70.000 m² or 12 parking positions for medium size aircraft, all heading west/east. On the east end of the apron there is a special parking area for ultra large size aicraft, like Boeing 747, Boeing C-17, Antonov An-124 and An-225. There are no restrictions for aircraft landing. Offical opening hours are 0430 - 2200 UTC (0500 - 2200 UTC on weekend) and a maximum of four cargo aircraft movements between 2200 und 0430 UTC on working days.^
The airfield in Hoersching was established in 1938, in 1955 the civil airport authority was founded. On the south side there is Austrian Air Force Base Hoersching-Vogler (LOXL). The north side of the airport is used for commercial aviation. Runway 09/27 is used by military und commercial aircraft.
Official Spotting Locations
A) Dachterasse / visitors terrace
A-2) apron east end
A-3) apron view UPS
B) Taxiway F
B-2) Crossing Taxiway F / Runway 09/27 east end
C) Taxiway G
C-2) Taxiway G parking area 2
D) Approach Runway 09
E) "Lager"
Airlines and Aircraft
Airlines in Linz
Daily flights are operated by Tyrolean Airways, Lauda Air, Lufthansa, Lufthansa CityLine, Ryanair and Niki (from May 2006). Outgoing charter flights are operated by MNG Airlines, SunExpress, Pegasus Airlines, Inter Airlines (Summer 2006), Tunisair, Nouvelair.
Aircraft in Linz
- Airbus A319 LH
- Airbus A320 HG, NG, OS, LH, FHY
- Airbus A321 HG, OS, INX
- BAe 146-200/300 EW
- BAe 146 Avro RJ85 CL
- Boeing 737-300 LH
- Boeing 737-400 MNB
- Boeing 737-500 LH, TU
- Boeing 737-600 TU
- Boeing 737-700 NG
- Boeing 737-800 NG, PGT, XQ
- Boeing 767-300 NG
- Canadair Regional Jet 100/200 VO, CL, Z2
- Canadair Regional Jet 700 CL, Z2
- Dash 8-300 VO
- Dash 8-400 VO
- Fokker 27 AMK
- Fokker 100 VO
- Lockheed C-130 Austrian Air Force
- Lockheed L-188 AMK
- McDonnell Douglas MD-82 MNB
Special visitors in Linz are/were: AN12, AN24, AN26, A124, A225, B752, FK50, FK70, E145, IL76, T154