GBBUBBQ

Gabala International Airport

Gabala, Azerbaijan · Asia

Asia Asia/Baku

1runway

3,600 mLongest runway

Qabala International Airport (Azerbaijani: Q?b?l? Beyn?lxalq Aeroportu) (IATA: GBB, ICAO: UBBQ) is an airport serving Qabala (also known as Q?b?l? or Gabala), the capital of the Gabala district (rayon) in Azerbaijan. The airport was officially opened by President Ilham Aliyev on 17 November 2011.

Location

40.809°N, 47.725°E · 285 m s. n. m. (935 ft)

General data

CountryAzerbaijan

CityGabala

IATA codeGBB

ICAO codeUBBQ

Coordinates40.809°N, 47.725°E

Elevation285 m s. n. m. (935 ft)

Time zoneAsia/Baku

Runways1

Longest runway3,600 m

Runways · 1

16/34

Length3,600 m11,811 ft

Width60 m197 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

History

The construction of Gabala Airport began in 2011 and was inaugurated in the same year. In the same year, Gabala Airport was granted international status. The airport's first international flight began operating in November 2012. The first international flight was operated by the Russian company Ural Airlines on the Moscow-Gabala route.

In 2020, before the start of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, during joint military exercises between the Azerbaijani and Turkish armies, 6 F-16 fighter jets belonging to the Turkish Air Force were first stationed at Ganja International Airport and then at Gabala Airport. These aircraft continued to remain in Gabala during the war. Although President Ilham Aliyev confirmed in his address to the people that these aircraft were in Azerbaijan, he stated that they did not participate in military operations in Karabakh, and that the F-16 aircraft would protect Azerbaijan if a third party intervened in the war.

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Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Gabala International Airport (GBB). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GBB

MLA

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_gbb,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Gabala International Airport (GBB)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GBB},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GBB}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-24},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-24}
}

Wikipedia

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