Budweis airport
| Budweis airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LKCS |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 432 m (1417 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 6.5 km southwest of České Budějovice |
| Street | R 3 (E 55) |
| Local transport | Bus line 19 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 2006 |
| operator | Jihočeské letiště České Budějovice as |
| Start-and runway | |
| 09/27 | 2500 m × 45 m concrete |
The Ceske Budejovice Airport , Czech Letiště Ceske Budejovice , is in the municipality Planá near the southern Bohemian town of Ceske Budejovice situated civilian airport.
history
In 1935 an airfield was built near Planá, which served as the main base of the Jihočeský Aeroklub. The civil airfield became a reserve training center for the Tisíc pilotů republice (German: Thousand Pilots of the Republic). As part of the mobilization of 1938, the stationing of Avia B-534 interceptors , guards from the gendarmerie direction finding and Haléřova letka with the light bombers of the Letov Š-328 type financed by the population from the fundraising campaign Jižní Čechy armádě (German: South Czech Army) took place of the 1st Prague-Kbely Air Regiment .
After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the airfield was used by the 8th Fighter Division, and a flying school was operated in which pilots on ten different types, including the Messerschmitt Me 262 , received training for a wide variety of operational flights. From mid-1944, the airfield was attacked several times by the Allies, with technology and aircraft being destroyed.
After the end of the war, the members of the former 312nd Czechoslovak Fighter Squadron of the Royal Air Force were stationed in Planá in 1945 , and after their return they formed the 2nd Czechoslovak Air Division. Since then, the Budweis motorized flight section of the Český národní aeroklub (German: Czech national aeroclub) has also used the airfield. In 1947 regular air traffic between Budweis and Prague was started by the Czechoslovak airline, which flew the route twice a day. Since 1948 the Planá airfield has been one of eight branch offices for aviation security. At that time there were also demonstrations of aircraft for the Hagana and Tzahal and Czechoslovak pilots passed their experiences with the types MK IX Spitfire and Avia S-199 on to the Israelis.
From 1950 on, the Czechoslovak air defense was reorganized based on the Soviet model. The airfield was redesigned by 1952, equipped with new military technology and the 1st fighter regiment was stationed.
Expansion plans
In December 2005 the airfield was cleared by the military and handed over to a joint-stock company Jihočeské letiště České Budějovice as , which is supported by the Jihočeský kraj and the city of Budweis, for civil use. Since March 19, 2008, the airport has had a permit to operate a “non-public international airport with an external border”.
It was planned to convert the airport into an international airport by means of a 40 million euro conversion, on which aircraft the size of an Airbus A320 or a Boeing 737 can take off and land. For this purpose, a completely new handling terminal was to be built and the runway renewed. 600,000 passengers a year should use this airport. At the beginning of 2012, the European Union withdrew funding for expansion measures from the European Structural Fund to the amount of 15 million euros. As a result, the expansion plans were reduced to a financial volume of 24 million euros. An existing building for passenger handling is to be expanded and only part of the runway is to be renovated. Completion is planned for 2018.
Web links
- Airport homepage (Czech, German, English)
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- ↑ iDnes.cz: "In two years the airport should start international operations" , May 9, 2016
- ↑ Prager Zeitung: Airport in South Bohemia is being expanded , January 28, 2015
