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A bit of aviation history - 16 December 1936



 
 
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Old December 16th 03, 01:01 AM
Seppo Sipilä
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Default A bit of aviation history - 16 December 1936

Here is a bit of aviation history.

67 years ago, on 16 December 1936 in Finland, Helsinki Airport at
Malmi was first opened to traffic.

Helsinki-Malmi Airport is possibly the best-preserved still active
international airport left in the world from the pre-WWII era. The
milieu of this internationally acclaimed functionalist airport is
almost unchanged in shape and size from it's 1930's appearance. Even
the old runways are all there, although only two of them are in use
nowadays. Helsinki-Malmi is the general aviation oasis of the Finnish
capital region and by far the biggest pilot training center in the
country.

In September 2003, Helsinki-Malmi Airport was selected onto World
Monument Fund's List of 100 Most Endangered Cultural Sites (see
http://www.wmf.org for details).

A web page about the opening to traffic of the Airport is available at
http://www.tky.hut.fi/~pik/malmi/malmi-67-e.htm .
 




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