Tallinn-Lasnamäe Airport
Coordinates: 59 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ N , 24 ° 51 ′ 48 ″ E
The airfield Lasnamäe ( Estonian Lasnamäe lennuväli ) was the first airport in the Estonian capital Tallinn (German Reval ). It was put into operation in 1922.
After the official commissioning of Tallinn-Ülemiste Airport in September 1936, it was abandoned as a civil airport and only used for military purposes until the 1970s.
history
The first airfield in what is now Estonia was built shortly before the outbreak of the First World War . It was in the Livonian Raadi , which is now a district of the southern Estonian city of Tartu ( Dorpat ).
With the establishment of the Republic of Estonia in 1918, the capital Tallinn became the undisputed political and economic center of the new state. In March 1921, the corporation Aeronaut the first airline in the country founded in Tallinn.
Aeronaut was in 1921 a large reinforced concrete - Hangar at the Tallinn district of Lasnamäe ( Laaksberg build). The district lies on a Klint from limestone near the Baltic coast . The airfield was about 5 kilometers east of the city center at an altitude of 43 m above sea level.
Tallinn-Lasnamäe became the young state's most important civil and military airfield in the 1920s . The concrete runway was 2500 meters long. Regular flights led from here to Helsinki , Tartu and Riga .
The airfield was equipped with the simplest means. There was no radio link or air traffic control . The meteorological service was still in its infancy. This led to numerous accidents.
Between 1932 and 1936, a modern civil airport was created in the Ülemiste district, today's Tallinn-Lennart Meri Airport . At the end of the 1930s, Tallinn-Lasnamäe was modernized and expanded as a military airfield by the Estonian Air Force .
In 1940 the Red Army occupied Estonia. From 1941 to 1944 the airfield was used by the German occupation forces. With the second Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1944, the airfield returned to the property of the Soviet Air Force . They used the airfield as a training ground for parachutists and helicopters.
Between 1976 and 1991 a huge Soviet-style prefabricated housing estate was built in Lasnamäe . By creating new living spaces, the settlement of Russian-speaking residents from other parts of the Soviet Union was to be promoted. In the course of urban planning, the airfield was built over with residential buildings and streets. Today there are no more remains.
