Category: Airports
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The Piła airport. 2024
Piła 2024-08-07 Geographical coordinates: 53.169N 16.710E. Elevation 80.00 m (262 ft). The former military airport at Piła. Not much has changed at the Piła airfield in recent years. The Aeroclub is active and the Piła Military Museum has been established. Several companies have rented shelter-hangars and adopted them for their own needs. Part of the…
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The Piła airport. 2012
Piła 2012-05-28 Geographical coordinates: 53.169N 16.710E. Elevation 80.00 m (262 ft). History of Piła Airport. Second Piła Airport. Due to the start of aircraft production at the Ostdeutsche Albatros Werke GmbH plant and the opening of a pilot school, it was necessary to open a new Airport. Its flying field was located to the west…
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The Piła airport. 2011
Piła 2011-05-28 Geographical coordinates: 53.169N 16.710E. Elevation 80.00 m (262 ft). History of Pila Airport. City of Piła. The city of Piła is located in the Greater Poland Voivodeship and is the seat of the County. In the period 1975-1998, it was the capital of Piła Province. The city is situated on the river Gwda,…
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Airport Pobiednik Wielki. 2020
Pobiednik Wielki Airport is located east of Krakow, just beyond the city’s administrative borders. The distance to the center of Krakow is 23 km. The airport is sports and used by General Aviation. The owner of the airport is the Krakow Aero Club. The geographical coordinates are 50.085N 20.202E. Elevation 198 m (664 ft). ICAO airport…
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Kobylnica airport, Poznań. 2020
Kobylnica Airport was built during World War II, during the German occupation. It was established by the German authorities in 1942. In 1945, the army turned Poznań into a fortress, so heavy fighting took place over the airport and its surroundings. The Soviet army had difficulty driving the Germans out of the outskirts of Poznań.…
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Mińsk Mazowiecki airport. 2009
The history of Mińsk Mazowiecki dates back over 600 years. From May 29, 1421, the town had city rights. The name Mińsk comes from the Mieni River, the etymology of which is in turn related to the word "mienić". The adjective "Mazowiecki" is intended to distinguish the city from Minsk in Belarus. The city changed…
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Legnica airport. 2010
In 1913, an airport for airships was established in Legnica. Airships have been built around the world since 1852. Airships were essentially propeller-driven balloons. Their shape depended on the amount of gas filling its interior. But at the beginning of the 20th century, Ferdinand von Zeppelin developed a completely new structure, a skeleton covered with…
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Legnica airport. 2009
The Muscovites left behind 3,000 apartments. Most of them were in need of major renovation. Including the replacement of roofs, all joinery and all installations. This is how 4 barracks blocks at Złotoryjska Street were renovated. But to this day (2009), many apartment blocks are still waiting for renovation or demolition. It will be many…
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Legnica airport. 2008
Photo description: Many residents of Legnica include the "Brotherhood in Arms" monument among their monuments. In keeping with the times, some people called this monument "homosexuals", which was certainly not the intention of its creators. But this questionable work, just like many other monuments of this type, should disappear from the center of Legnica. The…
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Debrzno airport. 2008
Traces indicate that there was a Piast settlement here already in the 12th century. In the 13th century, there was already a wooden and earth defensive castle in the settlement. The first written records come from the first half of the 14th century, when the Piast Princes of Pomerania ruled in these areas. Unfortunately, in…