Lappeenranta Airfield

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Lappeenranta Airport (IATA: LPP, ICAO: EFLP) is located about two kilometres to the west of Lappeenranta city centre. In 2013, 98,300 passengers passed through the airport, then making it the 11th busiest airport in Finland. The airport was founded in 1918 and it is the oldest airport in Finland that is still functioning. The airport is located in the old army camp. In 1918, the area was used for military aviation for the first time. The first scheduled flight landed here in 1951, and the airfield became an airport in the early 1960s, when the current terminal was built. The landscape around the airport is a sunny and dry habitat of national significance, and threatened species of butterflies and hemipterans have been found there. The runway is 2,500 m long and 60 m wide.