EHBD Budel – Kempen Airport

On 26 July 1970 Kempen Airport has been opened with the name "Airportterrain Budel". Founder and owner of the airfield is Mr. W.M.Fransen. The airfield is commissioned by the traffic minister as a public international airfield terrain.Soon after opening, flying school De Kempen has been established. This school gives training for obtaining a LAPL/PPL and Microlight (MLA) license, as well as type ratings for TBM and PC12. In the first years after opening of the airfield, business and industry were still a little restrained concerning the activities on Kempen Airport, but as the economy did improve, ever more industrial branches were interested in business flight.By this increase in demand of the Kempen Airport activities, investments in the infrastructure of the airfield were necessary.Therefore in 1991 a hardened  runway, length 930 meter,was constructed. Nowadays Kempen Airport has a runway with a length of 1199 meters and a width of 23 meters. Also approachlighting and PAPI have been constructed. Today Kempen Airport processes annualy more than 80.000 flight movements. These flights consist of:

• Training flights.
• Business flights.
• Inspection flights for various authorities and companies.
• Medical and police flights.
• Photo and cartography missions.
• Private flights.

Our FISO traffic management operates under the flag of Air Traffic Management Netherlands. Source: https://www.kempenairport.nl/en/