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Drachten

Drachten Airfield is a small general aviation airfield in the located in the province of , 1 NM northeast of . It has one runway, 07/25, with an asphalt/concrete surface and a length of 950 m.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Drachten Airfield”, “Drachten Airport”, and “EHDR”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum Drachten and Nij Smellinghe.

Museum
Photo: P. Martina, Public domain.

Hospital
Photo: Baykedevries, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hospital.

Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Drachtstercompagnie and Drachten.

Village
Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small village in in the province of , the . It had a population of around 1,185 in January 2017.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is the second largest town in the Dutch province of . Today, it is home to some 45.000 inhabitants. Since it was only a small village until well in the 1950s, when it passed the 10,000 people mark, its historic heritage is somewhat limited, but the city today serves as the regional centre for shopping and services.

Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in municipality in the province of , the . It had a population of around 1,363 in January 2017.

Drachten

Latitude
53.11832° or 53° 7′ 6″ north
Longitude
6.12868° or 6° 7′ 43″ east
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Operator
Stichting Vliegveld Drachten
ICAO airport code
EHDR
Open location code
9F58449H+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 28647630
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
11711060
Wiki­data ID
Q1656986
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Satellite Map

Discover Drachten from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Western Frisian—“Drachten” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “EHDR”
  • Dutch: “Vliegveld Drachten”
  • German: “Flugplatz Drachten”
  • Indonesian: “EHDR”
  • Japanese: “ドラハテン飛行場”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Drachten”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه دراختن”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи саҳро дрохтн”
  • Western Frisian: “Fleanfjild Drachten”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Drachten”. Photo: Maurits90, CC0.