Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields in Europe
After an original idea by Paul Freeman.
First published 7 Nov 2010.
This collection of airfields is ©2010-2012 RonaldV
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Introduction. Some years ago I discovered a website dedicated to abandoned and little known airfields in the United States.
Searching the web I discovered there is nothing like this about European airfields, although you would think that two World Wars and the Cold War would have left some mark
on this continent. |
Inleiding. Een paar jaar geleden ontdekte ik een website opgedragen aan verlaten en onbekende vliegvelden in de Verenigde Staten.
Doorzoekend over het web ontdekte ik dat er niet zoiets is over Europese vliegvelden, alhoewel je na twee Wereldoorlogen en de Koude Oorlog toch wel wat zou kunnen terugvinden
op ons continent. Aangezien je ergens moet beginnen, besloot ik om iets dergelijks te bouwen over vliegvelden in Europa, beginnend in Nederland en België. Er is wel een verschil: Waar Paul Freeman
er vooral voor kiest om verlaten vliegvelden te gebruiken, heb ik er voor gekozen om ook niet zo bekende vliegvelden toe te voegen. |
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This website contains descriptions & images of 744 abandoned and little known airfields across Europe.
The pages are organized by country in alphabetical order:
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7 airfields, |
72 airfields, |
4 airfields, |
7 airfields, |
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10 airfields, |
5 airfields, |
20 airfields, |
60 airfields, |
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147 airfields, |
11 airfields, |
51 airfields, |
71 airfields, |
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57 airfields, |
2 airfields, |
8 airfields, |
1 airfield, |
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73 airfields, |
2 airfields, |
17 airfields, |
18 airfields, |
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2 airfields, |
6 airfields, |
13 airfields, |
6 airfields, |
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67 airfields, |
... airfields, |
... airfields, |
So many airfields, |
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields in Europe
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List of people and of sites that have been a great help in finding information for this project:
James Olgethorpe from Australia
Jan Lantmeeters, Jos Gysbrechts, Nikko Yaginuma, Maurice Bruyndonckx, Wim Demeyer, Bjorn Claes,
Jos Bamps, Emmanuel Godfroid, Jean-Michel Dominique, Jan Gillegot and Ivan Janssens from Belgium
Zbynek Rapprich from the Czech Republic
france-air-otan.blogspot.com (France)
Volker Böhme from Germany
Fliegerhorste.de (Germany)
Mil-airfields.de (Germany)
Claudio Toselli, Michelangelo Marino, Silvano Marti, Claudio Gioia, Antonio Pignatiello, Guido and Giacomo Surci from Italy
Archeologi dell'Aria
Communità di appasionati di ricerche aeronautiche e recuperi storico umanitari (Italy)
Latvian Airfields (Latvia)
Janis Bitenieks from Latvia
Paul Baijens, Herman Dekker, Han de Ridder, Paul Sturm, Bart Vermeulen and Dick Trum from the Netherlands
Jaap Woortman - Documentation Group Volkel and
Peter van Kaathoven
Study Group Air War 1939-1945 the Netherlands
René Ros
webmaster militairzeeburg.nl and stelling-amsterdam.nl the Netherlands
Rob de Man of ClassicWings from the Netherlands.
74 (F) Tiger Squadron Association (United Kingdom)
Airfieldinformationexchange.org (United Kingdom)
Robin A. Walker (United Kingdom)
Bob Ferguson - Col. USAF (ret.), Ed Robertson, Stan Kolbe, Reid Waltman, Ben Bajorek and Mark Boyd from the United States
Military Aviation Museum (United States)
(Belgian-Dutch website)
Wikipedia pages in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latvian, Russian, Swedish and other languages,
Google, Google Translate, and everybody who took the effort to put some knowledge of airfields on line or in my mail, even when it was only in his/her own language.
A big "Thank you!" to Renee Grier in the UK for providing encouragement and having the patience to read and correct all my typing and spelling errors in the initial version of this page.
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