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Buriram Airport

airport

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ1431028
Source-derived summary

Buriram Airport (IATA: BFV, ICAO: VTUO) — also spelled Buri Ram Airport — is in Tambon Ron Thong, Satuek district, Buriram Province in Northeastern Thailand.

Facilities

The airport is at an elevation of 180 metres (591 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 04/22 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,100 by 45 metres (6,890 ft × 148 ft).

Future Expansion

In 2019, the Department of Airports announced a 700 million baht second passenger terminal will be built at Buriram airport. It will increase the airport's capacity from 750,000 per year to 1.7 million. There will be an extension on the length of the runway to accommodate larger aircraft in the future.

Airlines and destinations

Previously served airlines

Statistics

Traffic by calendar year

References

External links

Buriram travel guide from Wikivoyage

Air Asia

Nok Air

"Current weather for VTUO".

Editorial summary

“Buriram Airport” enters the record as airport. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Buriram, Airport and airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Buriram, Airport and airport.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Buriram Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Buriram, Airport and airport provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1431028. Authority coordinates are 15.227, 103.251. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Buriram Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Buriram Airport primary sources, Buriram Airport archive and Buriram research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from Buriram Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.