Lubin Airport is a general aviation

General aviation

General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...

 airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 of the local aeroclub, Aeroklub Zagłębia Miedziowego, in Lubin

Lubin

Lubin is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. From 1975–1998 it belonged to the former Legnica Voivodeship. Lubin is the administrative seat of Lubin County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Lubin, although it is not part of the territory of the latter,...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. It is located in the north part of city. The airport has a paved runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

(RWY 31/13, 1000 m x 30 m) suitable for turboprop aircraft of the Beech Super King Air or Saab 340 class and little jet aircraft of Cessna Citation class, and a grass runway (RWY 11/29, 1100 m x 200 m) for gliders and lighter aircraft.

Runway 31 has a "simplified cross" approach lighting, threshold, edge and end of runway lights. Taxiways have edge lights. Also, runway 31 has a PAPI visual indicator of glide path. Lighting system is available on request. Airport used to have an NDB navigation system, but it has been inoperative.

There is a border crossing at the airport. Avgas 100LL and Jet A-1 fuel are available at airport.