Sivrihisar Aviation Center (), Necati Artan Facilities, is an airpark located at Sivrihisar district of Eskişehir Province in Turkey.

History

Located in Yeşilköy neighborhood at on the southwest of

Sivrihisar Sivrihisar is a municipality and district of Eskişehir Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,748 km2, and its population is 20,087 (2022). Its elevation is . Location The town of Sivrihisar lies north of the historical site of Pessinus, at the f ...

Eskişehir Province Eskişehir Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality in northwestern Turkey. Its area is 13,960 km2, and its population is 906,617 (2022). Its adjacent provinces are B ...

, the airpark is built on nearly land at an elevation of

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. The construction was carried out in three phases. In the first phase, which consisted of a -long runway, two

hangar A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word ''hangar'' comes from Middle French ''hanghart'' ("enclosure near a house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish ...

s and operation buildings, was completed in 2014. The airpark became operational in March 2014. In the second phase, additional hangars, and in the final phase a lodging facility for 80 persons were built in 2015.

Features

The runway, in the 05/23 direction, is now, after extension, long and wide. Beside the runway, there is a turf runway for gliders and

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. The airpark features two

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s, one in the west and another one in the east. The west apron occupies concrete ground. There are hangars of various private companies, technical offices and

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. Its airport parking lot can hold seven aircraft with

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, five aircraft with wingspan as well as three

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s with wingspan up to . Opened in 2018, the airpark hosts the M.S.Ö. Air & Space Museum at the west apron. Many aircraft in the museum's inventory are ready to fly. The east apron stretches over an area of , where the Operations Control Center, the VIP terminal, the flight school, offices and technical hangars are situated. The east apron is reserved for air shows.

Events

Events like

flight training Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft. The overall purpose of primary and intermediate flight training is the acquisition and honing of basic airmanship skills. Flight training can be conducted under a str ...

parachuting Parachuting and skydiving are methods of descending from a high point in an atmosphere to the ground or ocean surface with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or multiple parachutes. For hu ...

training and

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are also held at the airpark. The biggest event organized at the airpark is the annual SHG Airshows, which was attended by 56,000 in 2019. Other events organized include SHY Air Race, Fly-Inn, Children's Day Paper Plane Contest and Flying Villages.https://en.shm.aero/etkinlikler-2020 Events 2020 at SHM

References

Airports in Turkey Sivrihisar District 2013 establishments in Turkey Airports established in 2014 Residential airparks Gliderports {{Portal, Turkey