Nuri Demirağ Air Campus
Nuri Demirağ Air Campus is a meeting point for sport and recreational aviation, for club programmes, and for anyone who would like to visit Divriği on an eligible private or general-aviation flight.
The historic strip Nuri Demirağ had built in his hometown is in use again: arrive with your own aircraft and you can build both a flying programme and a Divriği programme around the same visit.
Fly to Divriği
A flight can be the beginning of the visit: one weekend can hold both the flying and a UNESCO-listed monument, a local table and a mountain valley.
- Somewhere to stay
- Accommodation listings for Divriği are on this site; you contact the business directly.
- Getting around, and a guide
- Local listings for transfers between the field and the town, and for guiding, are on the Tourism page.
- The local table
- Divriği Pilavı / Alatlı Pilavı, a registered geographical indication, plus cheese, butter, honey, erişte and tarhana from the producers themselves.
- Heritage and culture
- The UNESCO-listed Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği, Divriği Castle and the traditional stone mansions are close to the strip.
- What is on locally
- Local events and announcements are published on the site, so a visit can be built around what is already on the calendar.
A visit to Divriği may be planned using an eligible non-commercial private or general-aviation aircraft, subject to the current Air Campus conditions and the required pre-flight operational coordination.
Programme ideas for clubs
Club Fly-In
A short visit where one or more flying clubs arrive with their own aircraft and spend a few days in Divriği together. The clubs plan the flying side under their own rules; we connect the local side — where to stay, how to move around, and what to see.
Aviation & Culture
Flying days combined with the town itself: the UNESCO-listed Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği, the castle, the stone mansions, the local table and the aviation story that started here, all part of the same visit.
Club Training & Practice
A club spending several days here for its own working sessions, meetings and practice. Any instruction or flying authority rests entirely with the club, its instructors and the authorised aviation organisation — Divriği Pazarı gives no aviation instruction. We connect accommodation, transport and the programme around it.
International Club Visit
A visit by a club from abroad, if they wish alongside a meeting with Turkish clubs and a Divriği cultural programme. Nothing like this is arranged today — it starts with a conversation with the clubs who are interested.
Air Campus Connections
Divriği is not an isolated airfield: it sits on the same map as air campuses across other regions of Türkiye.
- Club-to-club visits
- Campus-to-campus fly-in meetings
- Joint aviation and cultural programmes
- Multi-stop visits across several airfields
Being on the same map does not mean any partnership exists between these airfields or their clubs. What is listed here are possibilities that can be arranged once someone asks.
Why Divriği?
- Heritage on the doorstep
- Close to the strip: the UNESCO-listed Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği, the 13th-century Divriği Castle and the traditional stone mansions.
- Somewhere to stay, a way to move
- Accommodation and guide/transfer listings are on the Tourism page; you contact the business directly.
- The local table
- Divriği Pilavı / Alatlı Pilavı, a registered geographical indication, plus cheese, butter, honey, erişte and tarhana from the producers themselves.
- Handmade work
- Carpet, kilim and cecim weaving, and the women-run Hüma Hatun Street opened in 2019.
- Landscape
- The glass viewing terrace over the Çaltı Canyon, the surrounding mountains and valleys, and the Mursal Dam reservoir.
- What is happening locally
- Local events and announcements are published on the site, so a visit can be built around what is already on the calendar.
Flight & Visit Information
A visit to Divriği can be planned on an eligible private or general-aviation flight. The points below are the ones worth having in front of you while you plan.
- Aircraft eligibility
- Fixed-wing civil aircraft with a maximum take-off weight above 5,700 kg may not use an air campus. Being under that limit is not sufficient on its own: the aircraft's type and performance must also suit the field.
- Visual flight rules, daylight
- Landings and take-offs are flown under visual flight rules, in daylight.
- Contact before you fly
- Before the flight you contact the Air Campus's point of contact and confirm the current state of the field and its suitability for use.
- Weather and field checks
- Meteorological assessment, visual inspection and obstacle checks are part of the pre-flight responsibilities.
- Fuel planning
- Fuel and route planning account for the possibility that the field is not usable when you arrive.
Aircraft suitability, meteorological assessment and the final decision to fly rest with the pilot; the conditions of use are set by the field's own responsible operator. Divriği Pazarı grants no landing permission, no flight authorisation and no assurance of availability.
This is not a passenger airport with scheduled service; it is an air campus open to sport and general aviation.
Flying and visiting arrangements at the airfield are set by its own responsible operator; Divriği Pazarı promises no access, no landing permission and no availability. Use the form to talk through programme conditions. Verify the current status before you go.
Source: Divriği Pazarı editorial check · Last checked: 2026-08
Nuri Demirağ and the aviation story
Nuri Demirağ (1886–1957) was an industrialist born in Divriği and one of the pioneers of Turkish aviation industry.
The Nu.D.36, one of Türkiye's first domestically built aircraft, landed at the historic Divriği airfield he had built in his hometown.
The historic Divriği airfield, completed in 1941, is today Nuri Demirağ Air Campus.
The site has its own responsible operator; Divriği Pazarı does not run the campus.
Let's plan your visit together
If you are considering a club visit, a fly-in, a joint programme, or a visit to Divriği in your own aircraft, write a few lines and we can put the local side together — where to stay, how to move around, and what to see.
This is not a reservation, a landing permission or a flight authorisation request. Your message reaches us and we get back to you.