Krosno Airport

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Krosno
Hangar in Krosno before the renovation (2011)
Characteristics
ICAO code EPKR
IATA code KRO
Coordinates

49 ° 40 ′ 45 "  N , 21 ° 44 ′ 42"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 45 "  N , 21 ° 44 ′ 42"  E
Height above MSL 281 m (922  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 2 km southwest of Krosno
Basic data
operator Gmina Krosno
surface 200 ha
Runways
11R / 29L 1100 m × 30 m asphalt concrete
11L / 29R 1035 m × 100 m grass
16/34 910 m × 100 m grass



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The airfield Krosno ( Polish Lotnisko Krosno , IATA code : KRO , ICAO code : EPKR ) is an airfield in the province Podkarpackie in Poland . It is used for air sports and is run by the municipality of Krosno .

The airfield is located about two kilometers southwest of the city center of Krosno.

Infrastructure

The airfield has two parallel runways with an east-west orientation. The 1100 m long, fired mainline 11R / 29L is paved. To the north of this is the 1035 m long grass runway 11L / 29R. Another grass runway 16/34 is 910 m long.

The facilities, the tower and paved taxiways were comprehensively renewed between 2014 and 2016.

use

Air show Piknik lotniczy (2018)

There is currently a flight school at the airfield that trains parachutists , gliders and motorized pilots. The Flying Clubs Aero Club Mielecki and Aeroklub Podkarpacki are active there. Regular events include balloon competitions and the Piknik lotniczy ("flight picnic ") air show, which is visited by around 30,000 people every year.

history

The airfield for gliders was laid out by the city and opened in 1932. Following a proposal by General Rayski, the facility was expanded into an airfield in 1937 and a non-commissioned officer school for the Polish Air Force was built. In 1938 the flight school moved from Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) to Krosno. There were gunners , radio operator and flight engineer trained. In addition to the barracks and the training buildings, repair workshops and a sports stadium were also built.

After the German invasion of Poland , the school was evacuated to Łuck on September 4, 1939 . The Luftwaffe expanded the area considerably, relocated the residents and built a concrete runway. The base's alternate airfields have also been expanded. In the second half of September the I. Group of Jagdgeschwader 77 was stationed in Krosno.

Hitler and Mussolini (center left, hidden) at Krosno airfield in 1941

In preparation for the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 bombers and fighter planes were ammunitioned in Krosno. The station received an additional siding for the wagons loaded with ammunition. The Kampfgeschwader 51 and the Jagdgeschwader 77 with the Lehrgeschwader 2 were stationed . On 27./28. In August 1941, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in the southern complex and flew from Krosno to a meeting with Field Marshal Rundstedt in the Ukraine.

After that, the Air Fleet 4 technical school was relocated from Kraków to Krosno. The school was equipped with the Focke-Wulf Fw 44 "Stieglitz". In December 1943 she moved to Quakenbrück . Radar sets of the Würzburg-Riese type were installed here for the eastern front . The repair shops maintained aircraft engines and damaged aircraft, mainly Ju 52s , were also overhauled and rebuilt. The five-engine Heinkel He 111 Z “Zwilling” was also tested on site.

With the advance of the Red Army , the place was again equipped with an air base in autumn 1943 and in spring 1944 with anti-aircraft guns , searchlights and radio location station . Stationed those were Kampfgeschwader 27 "Boelcke" , the Schlachtgeschwader 3 and turn the fighter squadron 77. The base was evacuated in August 1944 and 11 August pioneers blasted the Wehrmacht.

From September 11, 1944 to 1946, the place was in Soviet hands and base during the fighting on the Duklapass during the Eastern Carpathian Operation and the subsequent fighting in Czechoslovakia .

Since October 1945 the place has been used for aviation activities again. In 1956 the Aeroklub Polski opened the regional workshop operation Warsztaty Aeroklubu Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej (Warsztaty APRL) in Krosno. In the following year, he built a prototype of the PZL S-4 Kania and later modified 19 Zlín Z-26s to single-seat aerobatic machines Super Kasper Akrobat and Beskid-1 (Krosno-66) . In 1968 a training center for parachutists was established.

The airfield was officially registered as a civil airfield in 1969. In 1975, Krosno became the capital of the voivodeship of the same name for 24 years . Three years later, the airfield was expanded for passenger and cargo traffic with short-haul aircraft. In 1993 the Polski Aeroclub founded the Centralna Szkoła Lotniczo-Techniczna (CSLT, Central Aviation School) in Krosno. In addition to training the technical staff, Polish gliders and powered aircraft up to 5.7 tons were serviced there.

On June 10, 1997 Pope John Paul II visited Krosno. 750,000 believers attended the mass on the airfield with the canonization of John of Duklas .

Aero-Kros MP-02 Czajka (2012)

The production department of the CSLT and its successor companies were among other things involved in the production of the German ultralight aircraft for the B&F company. By September 2005, 280 FK 9 , 68 FK 12 and 59 FK 14 had been manufactured and delivered to Speyer . The Polish Aero AT-3 was also built . Production has been operating under the name of Aero-Kros since 2007 . This developed and built the MP-02 Czajka .

Web links

Commons : Krosno airfield  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d EPKRspotters: LOTNISKO . (Polish, accessed April 22, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Artur Kucharski: HISTORIA LOTNISKA W KROŚNIE . (Polish, accessed April 22, 2019)
  3. ↑ a b Lotnicze Zakłady Produkcyjno-Naprawcze Aero-Kros sp. z oo ... (Polish, accessed April 22, 2019)
  4. ↑ krosnocity.pl: Jan Paweł II w Krośnie - never w to never wierzył . (Polish, accessed April 24, 2019)