Category: Airports

As a result of structural transformations, and above all the accession of the Republic of Poland to NATO, on December 31, 2000, the 10th PLM was disbanded. In its place, the 10th Fighter Aviation Squadron and the 32nd Air Base were established. The date of establishment of these units is January 1, 2001. The newly…

The airport is located about 5 km south-east of Łask. It is situated between roads No. 44 and No. 483 in the village of Brodnica. Geographical coordinates 51.33 N, 19.10 E, at an altitude of 193 m above sea level. It has a runway with a concrete surface, dimensions 2,500 m x 60 m, with…

In 2010, Darłowo Airport was part of the structures of the 44th Naval Aviation Base, which also had Babie Doły Airport and Siemirowice Airport under its command. Darłowo Airport, although it was used by the Polish Navy, performed typical police and SAR tasks in the Baltic Sea. It was also open to GA traffic. Darłowo…

In 2023, the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków celebrated its 60th anniversary. The Polish Aviation Museum, as the Aviation and Astronautics Museum, was established in 1963 at the Rakowice-Czyżyny military-civil airport, which at that time was scheduled to be closed due to the construction of the "Nowa Huta" residential district in Krakow and a metallurgical…

A few words about airports in Rome. Currently (2023) Rome has two commercial airports. The first of them was built in the town of Ciampino near Rome, in the south-eastern direction, about 15 km from the center of Rome. The date of establishment of the airport can be assumed as 1918. The airport had military…

It must be honestly written that Modlin Airport was lucky. The airport did not share the fate of most post-military airports in the Republic of Poland and despite considerable difficulties, it is on the aviation map of the world. The reconstruction of the post-military Modlin Airport into a passenger (commercial) airport began in October 2010.…

In 2003, due to the exhaustion of the transport capacity of the largest civil airport in Poland, Okęcie, plans to build a new Central Airport, sometimes called the National Airport, were revived. Initial work was carried out by analysts who determined that the Polish CAP (Central Airport) should cover an area of 1,300 hectares. A…

The first information about the airport in Modlin comes from 1937. East of the Modlin Fortress there was a small training ground. According to the residents’ accounts, members of the Air and Anti-Gas Defense League brought soil to this training ground in order to level and harden the area for the planned landing field. Such…

The airport is located in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship, 40 km north-west of Warsaw, next to the international route E 77. The airport is one of the elements of a military complex of military facilities under the name Modlin Twierdza. For over 60 years, the airport was used as a military base of great importance for…

In its 2023 forecast, the International Air Transport Association IATA estimated that in 2026, the airport in Radom will serve about 1 million passengers, and in 2030, about 1.5 million people. Let us remember that the area of Radom, Kielce, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Skarżysko Kamienna; this is an aviation desert. There are several million inhabitants of…