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 west of Weert and near the border with Belgium. Its main runway, 03/21, is a long asphalt runway. There is a second runway for microlight aircraft only, located next to the main runway, and is long. The airport opened in 1970, initially only with a grass runway. An asphalt runway was created in 1991 of , 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 largest general aviation airports in the Netherlands. International flights are allowed to and from the airport and it is used extensively by business aircraft, accounting for 80% of all aircraft movements.