| Wiener Neustadt West Airport | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Wien | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 941 ft / 287 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°50′21.9″N16°13′17.7″E / 47.839417°N 16.221583°E Coordinates: 47°50′21.9″N16°13′17.7″E / 47.839417°N 16.221583°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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  LOXN Location of Wiener Neustadt West Airport in Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wiener Neustadt West Airport( ICAO : LOXN) is a military airport located 23 nm south-southwest of Wien, Austria.
The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports often have facilities to store and maintain aircraft, and a control tower. An airport consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals. Larger airports may have airport aprons, taxiway bridges, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. In some countries, the US in particular, they also typically have one or more fixed-base operators, serving general aviation.
Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in Central Europe comprising 9 federated states. Its capital, largest city and one of nine states is Vienna. Austria has an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi), a population of nearly 9 million people and a nominal GDP of $477 billion. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The terrain is highly mountainous, lying within the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 m (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 m (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other regional languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene.
