Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport

Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU/LRBS) is in Bucharest, RO, 91 m above sea level. It has 1 runway and the longest is 3,200 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
BBU · LRBS
City
Bucharest
Country
RO
Coordinates
44.5031, 26.1029
Elevation
91 m · 297 ft
Time zone
Europe/Bucharest
Local time now
17:38
Airspace
Bucuresti ACC (Bandbox Sector) - Bucharest
Departures observed
31 · 38 arrivals
Most seen destinations
BSL, PEG, BER, NAP

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (8)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
08:28YRMDNC172 · YR-MDNRO-0136
09:09YRMDNC172 · YR-MDNRO-0178
12:00YRMDNC172 · YR-MDNRO-0121
12:32YRMDTP06T · YR-MDTRO-0029
13:48YRMDTP06T · YR-MDTRO-0178
13:59YRMDNC172 · YR-MDN
20:02S5DNIC172 · S5-DNI
22:06ORO2151C25C · EC-OMUBCN

Landed (10)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
09:20S5DIRC172 · S5-DIR
09:27YRMLC
11:17DETLGC172 · D-ETLG
12:13RYR5KAB738 · 9H-QFAIT-0592
12:18YRWSHS22T · YR-WSHTSR
16:27WMT684A321 · HA-LTKFMM
18:42WMT5WKA321 · HA-LXMBSL
19:13YRGLOTWEN · YR-GLOLR82
21:44WZZ3YXA21N · 9H-WNEWAW
23:08WMT7003A321 · HA-LTKHAM

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (1)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
07/253,200 m · 10,499 ftconcrete74° · 254°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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