Groningen Airport Eelde (IATA: GRQ, ICAO: EHGG) is a civilian airport near Eelde, in the northeastern Netherlands. It is 4.8 NM (8.9 km; 5.5 mi) south of the city of Groningen.
Though there are several scheduled services operating from the airport the majority of operations at the airport mostly comprise charter flights to holiday destinations in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. In 2008, the airport handled 190,034 passengers. The airport is also the home base of the KLM Flight Academy, Dutch Flight Academy (DFA), Avia Noord (AN), Noord Nederlandse Aero Club (NNAC) and Stella Aviation.
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