Istanbul Hezarfen Airfield

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Istanbul Hezarfen Airfield is a privately owned airport for general aviation located in Çatalca district of Istanbul, Turkey. The facility, one of the four airports in Istanbul, is named after Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi, a legendary Ottoman aviator, who purportedly flew across the Bosporus in the 17th century, as told by a contemporary traveler Evliya Çelebi.The 500acre airfield is situated on a peninsula surrounded by Lake Büyükçekmece to the south and by the motorway O-3 to the north. It is 50km west of Istanbul. It serves, since 1992, as the first internationally acknowledged private airport in Turkey.Its asphalt runway is 681m long and 28m wide. There are four taxiways parallel to the runway, a 2400m2 concrete ramp, and another 3000m2 paved one. The airfield's additional facilities are a motocross circuit, a 120m long model airplane field, and a heliport.Hezarfen HobbylandThe airfield, called also "Hezarfen Hobbyland", offers facilities for model aircraft flying, model car racing, motocross racing, drag racing (cars and motorcycles), car and driver testing and flight simulation.