Oud-Turnhout, BE 🇧🇪 Closed Airport
ICAO
BE-0071
IATA
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Elevation
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Region
BE-VAN
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Location: 51.321566° N, 5.012685° E
Continent: Europe
Type: Closed Airport
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Approximately late 2010 to early 2011.
The closure was due to economic and land development reasons. The municipality of Oud-Turnhout, which owned the land, did not renew the lease for the airfield. The site was subsequently rezoned for commercial use to be developed into a business park.
The site has been completely redeveloped and no longer exists as an airfield. It is now the 'Bedrijvenpark Vliegveld' (Airfield Business Park), a commercial and industrial zone. The former runway and airfield facilities have been replaced by roads (such as 'De Vliegplein'), warehouses, and commercial buildings. The name of the business park is a direct reference to the site's former use.
Oud-Turnhout Airfield was a private general aviation field primarily serving ultralight (ULM/microlight) aircraft, which is why it had the ICAO identifier BE-0071. It was the long-time home of the 'Kempische Aeroclub' (KAC), a prominent local flying club. For several decades, the airfield was a hub for recreational flying, flight training, and other light aviation activities in the Kempen region of Belgium. It operated with a single grass runway.
There are zero prospects for reopening the airfield at this location. The land has been permanently repurposed and developed with significant infrastructure, making a return to aviation use impossible. The Kempische Aeroclub (KAC) relocated its operations to the nearby Weelde Air Base (EBNW).