Kempen Airport

Kempen Airport or Budel Airport (Dutch: Vliegveld Kempen), also just called Budel after the nearby town, is a general aviation airport in the south-east of the Netherlands located 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) west of Weert and near the border with Belgium.

The airport opened in 1970, initially only with a grass runway.

An asphalt runway was created in 1991 of 930 m (3,051 ft), which was expanded later to its current length.

Approach and runway lighting followed, making the airport suitable for IFR flights.

With around 80,000 movements (a movement being a takeoff or landing) a year, it is amongst the busiest general aviation airports in the Netherlands.