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Breda International Airport is a small general aviation airfield located next to the A58 motorway on the outskirts of Bosschenhoofd, a village in the municipality of Halderberge in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. It is located 2NM southwest of Hoeven, 7.5NM west from Breda and 4NM east-northeast of Roosendaal.The airport has one single asphalt runway, 07/25, with a length of 830m and a significantly displaced threshold (meaning an area at the beginning of that runway is not to be used for landing) on either side.Originally called Seppe Airport (after the nickname of Bosschenhoofd), the airport started in 1949 as a glider field and has been used by powered aircraft since 1969. In 2002, the runway surface was changed from grass to asphalt. The airfield is not to be used by aircraft using jet engines. Around 50,000 airplane movements (a movement being a take-off or a landing) are made at Seppe annually. In February 2014 it was announced that the name of the airport would be changed to Breda International Airport. The airport was officially renamed on 01/01/2015.The airfield is also home to a small flying museum, Vliegend Museum Seppe (The Flying Museum of Seppe), having various aircraft, most of which are still airworthy, such as two de Havilland Tiger Moths, a Boeing Stearman and a Yakovlev Yak-52.
