Airport comments for Europe
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Bus transfers.
Is it possible to get a bus from the airport to Munich? If not can you make a suggestion using public transport.
Exquisite destination
Landed my Bonanza V35B there in July 2008. Absolutely gorgeous spot. Small inn right next to the airstrip, so you can eat lunch and sip coffee or beer while looking across the valley at Mont Blanc.
RAF Honington
Spent a week here in 2002, slept in a Nuclear bunker for the whole duration!
re: Double mark
Done -- there's just one Kasimovo Air Base now.
Double mark
Sorry, I have duplicate mark for this airfield. Remove it please, when possible.
Under redevelopment
This is a former NATO, French, and USAF base. It's currently being redeveloped as a charter and cargo hub.
Khankala
Reopened is Grozny North (see photo in "New York Times"). This mark is Khankala military base.
kukes
nuk e kuptoj pse nuk vihet ne pune nje airoport i tille por duhet te lihet ne meshire te fatit eshte gjith veriu i shqiperise qe mund ta shfrytezoje ......
re: Uncle
Thanks -- I've corrected the name, and updated the Wikipedia link.
Uncle
Correct name of this airbase is Kilpyavr (or Kilp-Yavr).
Under redevelopment
This is the former Shtruklovo Air Base, closed in 1999 and now under redevelopment as a civilian airport to serve Ruse.
Turkish Airlines Crash
This morning, Turkish Airlines flight 1951, a Boeing 737, made what appears to be a forced landing in a field 1.5 nm short of runway 18R at Schipol. Most of the passengers survived, but there were nine fatalities:
Airport closed 30 April 2008
The airport was closed on 30 April, 2008, with plans to develop a business park. A heliport will stay open, however, for police and medevac use only.
Principal air base
This is the main air base of the Irish Air Corps, which is a small organization for a country this size (about 850 people and 30 aircraft).
Oldest airport in the Czech Republic
According to Wikipedia, this is the oldest airport in the Czech Republic, built during World War I by the Austro-Hungarian empire, then used by the Germans in World War II for an aircraft factory. In 1918, when Czechoslovakia was created, it was the country's only airport. The city bought it from the military in 2004.
re: A little information about Beja airport
This image gallery shows that the passenger terminal building was still in the early stages of construction in late November 2008:
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Cold War History
BodΓΈ was a major NATO air base during the Cold War. In 1960, it was the point of departure for the U2 spy plane flown by Gary Powers that was shot down over the Soviet Union.
Temporarily closed
This is Kiev's original, smaller airport (Boryspil, further out of town, is the main one).
As of 2009-01-22, the airport is still temporarily closed for repairs and upgrades (with all scheduled flights shifted to Boryspil), but is scheduled to reopen on 1 February.
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Sort-of open
The Wikipedia article for this airport is interesting -- it used to provide access to a secret luxury retreat for Communist leaders. The airport is no longer officially maintained, but some pilots still use it (though some drivers also use it for racing).
Army
I once served here when there were jets flying.
Voronezh Aircraft Production Association
This is the home airport of the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association, one of the largest aircraft manufacturing complexes in Russia. It is closed to the public.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronezh_Aircraft_Production_Association
Disputed territory
This airport is operated by the Russians as part of their claim on the disputed Kuril Islands, near Japan.
Once a busy airport
This was a busy regional passenger airport during the Soviet era, but fell on hard times afterwards, and stopped operations about 10 years ago.
re: ID?
Thanks, Paul. I've switched it to the civil identifier, since that's more generally useful.
re: Runways?
According to the Wikipedia article they are, in fact, runways.
re: Closed?
Yes, the airport closed in 1989. It was actually a well-known airport before that. I found the information in the French Wikipedia.
re: Closed?
I agree, Paul. The Great Circle Mapper also has this airport, at almost the same location:
http://gc.kls2.com/airport/LFPR
On the other hand, the 2008-06 ICAO Location Indicators doc no longer lists LFPR, so it looks pretty likely that it's closed. Can anyone confirm when the airport shut down? I've tagged it with my "fixme" tag for now, so that I'll remember to come back to it.
Closed?
It sure doesn't look like an airport in the satellite photo.
Runways?
Are those runways or helicopter taxiways?
ID?
I think this is one of those airports where the military operation and the civil operation have different ICAO codes - if you google it, you get about 50/50 split between LSTA and LSMN. The ICAO "LocationIdentifiersbystate.pdf" says that LSMN is the military one.
Calls for customs
There are calls for the airport to add customs services and accept international flights, so that passengers can fly directly to Chechnya, without having to pass through Moscow:
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/2880035
Reopened in spring, 2007
This airport was in ruins after the Chechan war, but it was repaired after the fighting died down, and was reopened for scheduled service in spring 2007. There's still occasional violence in Chechnya, but airplanes no longer have to spiral down from directly above the airport to avoid rocket fire. Here's a story from fall 2007:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/world/europe/11chechyna.html?_r=1&ref=europe
Info
Nice airport. I have flown there several times with our friend in a Fournier RF5.
Went to the north (Cherbourg ) and the south ( Le Mont Saint Michel ).
Used for holiday traffic from Yersey (GB ) and internal from france.
Also 4 motor hanggliders for tourists.
Helibase of Swiss AF
viewing platform on the east side
CFB Lahr (EDAN?)
This airport used to be a Canadian Forces Base. The airport was used mostly for the frequent flights to and from Canada and for intra-Europe flights. In the 1980s and into the early 90s, the aircraft hardened shelters were used as an army garrison. One of the hard shelter areas was used by 444 Sqn, a tactical helicopter squadron flying the CH-136 Kiowa. I think that the ICAO code was EDAN at that time; I have no idea why it was changed. Even if the vocation of the airport changed drastically, I see no reason to change the ICAO code...
re: Not in use
Thanks. I've marked it as closed, and linked to an historical military field site as the home page.
Not in use
This airport is not in use
WYTON RAF IN MY HEARTH, FOR EVER.
AT THE END OF THE FALKLANDS "AFFAIR" ( I DONΒ΄T WANT TO SAY WAR ) I WENT TO WYTON RAF FOR A TRAINING COURSE ON CANBERRAS PR9. THREE OF THESE AIRCRAFTS FLEW TO SOUTH AMERICA AND BECAME PART OF THE CHILEAN AIR FORCE FLEET.
THERE IN HUNTINGDOM, I KNEW WONDERFULL PEOPLE AND I HAVE SPECIAL RECALLS OF THAT STAY.
Very flexible
This is a small airport, situated extremely close to the village of Drachten. A small caveat is that only 26 is open for GA. 08 is only for MLA traffic nowadays.
An airport official at the office told us later that 08 might be used by GA-traffic, but only after permission and instructions from the tower and that landings should be done at the threshold (this is very tricky because of the trees at the beginning of 08).
Furthermore if you're entering from the south you may enter the circuit from the east, but again only with permission from the tower (or you could ask for a straight in, but that's not so much of a fun).
EXTRA - Class
This is the home of Extra Flugzeugbau!
www.extraaircraft.com/
LFKJ-AJA
According to the "Service de l'Information AΓ©ronautique" (SIA) - www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr
Ajaccio airport is now called "NapolΓ©on Bonaparte" stead of "Campo dell'Oro".
Closed?
This airport has been closed for a while now.
Paris Charles de Gaulle
Paris Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) is not very practicable. Difficulties to access by the pΓ©riphΓ©rique "highway" crowded traffic (Trucks). Baggage claim zone is a terrible jungle. A positive point is the RER between Paris "Gare du Nord" and Terminals not very cheap but very easy to use and fast. Negative point, sometimes not reliable due to strikes.
Article on Ashaig Airstrip
Here's a detailed English-language article about this airstrip from a Dutch site:
Operations at Pontecagnano
According to the Italian Wikipedia article, Pontecagnano is a joint military-civilian airport with scheduled airline service to Milan Malpensa (MXP), Catania (CTA), Verona (VRN), Barcelona (BCN), Bucharest (BBU), and Munich (MUC). It also hosts a fair bit of bizjet traffic, as well as the long-established Aeroclub di Salerno, which includes a flying school:
Spanair Flight 5022 destination
Gran Canaria Airport was the destination of Spanair Flight 5022, the flight that crashed right after takeoff from Madrid Barajas Airport (MAD) on August 20, 2008:
Spanair Flight 5022
On August 20, 2008, an MD-82 jet crashed immediately after takeoff from runway 36L and caught fire, killing at least 153 of the 172 people on board. It was bound for Gran Canaria Airport (LPA):
Storage tunnels
π Sun, 29 Mar 2009
β @david at GjadΓ«r Air Base, Albania
This is no longer an active air base for Albania, but it includes a series of storage tunnels that still contain military aircraft such as F-7s:
http://www.baes.org.uk/reports/albain06.htm