Klaipeda Airport

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The Klaipėda Airport (lit. Klaipėdos oro uostas ) was an airport in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipeda .

history

From 1921 to 1922, the Klaipėd city magistrate set up an aerodrome in Rumpiškės , not far from the fishing village of Smeltė . From 1 April 1921, the company began Danziger Luftreederei the airmail from Gdansk through Kaliningrad to transport to Klaipeda. From July 29, 1921 there was the airline to Riga in Latvia and from September 20, 1921 to Tallinn in Estonia . In 1922 there were two airlines: Danziger Luftreederei and Deutsche Luftreederei . In February 1923, the second went bankrupt. In 1924 there was the airline of the air mail Klaipėda (Memel) - Königsberg - Berlin and from 1925 the passenger lines to Kaunas , Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki , Danzig, Königsberg. The Junkers F 13 aircraft operated by the Latvian airline Latvijas Gaisa Satiksmes (it existed from 1921 to 1926). On May 25, 1927, Klaipėda Airport was closed.

literature

  • Gerhard Wiloweit: The economic history of the Memel area . II. Volume. Marburg (Lahn) 1969, p. 656.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Airmail. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Rob Mulder: LATVIJAS gaisa Satiksmes Akciju sabiedrība (1922-1928). In: europeanairlines.no. June 18, 2010, accessed December 9, 2017 .
  3. ^ Latvian Air Transport Company - Latvijas Gaisa Satiksmes - Junkers Air Transport. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .

Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 5.4 "  N , 21 ° 8 ′ 55.7"  E