Category: Airports

In the title, there are three names of the same airport, which at the beginning of its existence was located on the outskirts of Warsaw, and now the airport is within its borders. The area we are interested in is the north-western suburbs of Warsaw. This area served important military functions for several centuries. The…

Kraków Airport has been recording a very high growth rate in the number of passengers served in recent years. In 2007, 3,068,199 passengers were checked in at the port, which made the port once again the runner-up among domestic ports. The development of the airport in Balice now seems to be a foregone conclusion. Until…

Currently (2009) there is no Bagicz airport. There is only a landing field used by the Baltic Aero Club. But for the purposes of this article we will use the name Bagicz Airport. For many decades there was a large airport, first Germanic and then Soviet. Even though the town of Bagicz has been within…

In 1977, the first passenger connection was launched on the Warsaw-Babimost route, and a little later the Gdańsk-Babimost connection. Of course, the timetable included a connection not to Babimost, but to Zielona Góra. Passengers covered the 30 kilometers separating the airport from the center of Zielona Góra by bus. The bus ride was included in…

Babimost Airport is currently called Zielona Góra Airport. It has an IATA code – IEG and an ICAO code – EPZG. It has geographic coordinates; 52 degrees 08 minutes N latitude, 15 degrees 47 minutes E longitude, lies at an altitude of 59 m above sea level. It is located in the town of Nowe…

Ułęż is a town located in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1975), in Rycki County, in the Ułęż Commune. There are two former military airports in the commune. The first one is called Ułęż Airport, located north of Ułęż, next to the DK 48 road. The second airport, called Podlodów Airport, is located in the eastern…

Radzyń Podlaski is located in the Łukowska Region, approximately 70 km north of Lublin and approximately 70 km south-west of Biała Podlaska. In the years 1975-1998 Radzyń Podlaski belonged to the Bialskopodlaskie Voivodeship. The Białka River flows through Radzyń. The average height above sea level is 140-160 m. The inhabitants of the commune earn their…

In the 1920s, Mokotów Airport developed dynamically, although it was a provisional development. It sounds a bit strange, but already in 1920 it was known that the Mokotów Airport was hindering the development of Warsaw. Tall buildings were being built closer and closer to the airport. In 1932, the following nearby terrain obstacles were reported…

When writing about Polish Aviation, we must go back to the beginning of the development of aviation. It is common knowledge that the first successful heavier-than-air flights on December 17, 1903 were made by the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright. However, very quickly, France took the world lead in this new sport. We used the…

The air traffic control tower (TWR) is often a symbol of an airport. Although the airport in Mierzęcice has been operating since 1940, it did not have an air traffic control tower for many years. When the 39th Fighter Aviation Regiment was stationed here, the role of the flight control tower was played by the…