Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields in Europe
After an original idea by Paul Freeman.
First published 7 Nov 2010.
This collection of airfields is ©2010-2013 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 was nothing like that about European airfields, although you would think that two World Wars and the Cold War would have left some mark
on our continent. |
Inleiding. Een paar jaar geleden ontdekte ik een website opgedragen aan verlaten en onbekende vliegvelden in de Verenigde Staten.
Door zoekend over het web ontdekte ik dat er niet zoiets was 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. Van daar ging ik al snel over naar de rest van Europa. Er is wel een verschil: Waar Paul Freeman
er vooral voor koos om verlaten vliegvelden te gebruiken, heb ik er voor gekozen om ook niet zo bekende vliegvelden toe te voegen. |
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Important notice!
In October 2012 I was approached by a reader of this website. Being an aviation enthousiast and a helicopter pilot,
he told me he had considered building a website like the one built by Paul Freeman, until he happened to bump into
this one. He offered to join forces, beginning by offering the website platform he had built as a hobby. Not without
hesitation I asked him to show me what he had built. After making some adjustments, he and I began migrating to his
platform on a new website. As of April 2013 the website you are looking at is no longer being maintained. In fact, I am
slowly dismantling it, referring articles to the new website. I would like you all to move to that new website, which is now
located at
www.forgottenairfields.com.
Please update your bookmarks.
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This website contains descriptions & images of 962 abandoned and little known airfields across Europe.
The pages are organized by country in alphabetical order:
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7 airfields, |
3 airfields, |
73 airfields, |
6 airfields, |
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10 airfields, |
12 airfields, |
8 airfields, |
21 airfields, |
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91 airfields, |
161 airfields, |
12 airfields, |
14 airfields, |
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70 airfields, |
73 airfields, |
1 airfield, |
82 airfields, |
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2 airfields, |
8 airfields, |
1 airfield, |
75 airfields, |
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8 airfields, |
18 airfields, |
30 airfields, |
1 airfield |
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2 airfields, |
9 airfields, |
21 airfields, |
8 airfields, |
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2 airfield, |
139 airfields, |
more to come |
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
Olivier Solaris, Rémi Brouillaud and Mathieu Camus from France
france-air-otan.blogspot.com (France)
Volker Böhme and Michael Hesse from Germany
Fliegerhorste.de (Germany)
Mil-airfields.de (Germany)
Claudio Toselli, Michelangelo Marino, Silvano Marti, Claudio Gioia, Antonio Pignatiello,
Pinuccio d'Angelo, Giangavino Contini, 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.
Magnus Emanuelsson and Per Jelkne from Sweden
74 (F) Tiger Squadron Association (United Kingdom)
Airfieldinformationexchange.org (United Kingdom)
Mike Seager Thomas, Robin A. Walker and Steve Robson from the 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)
Some others from countries across Europe who wished to remain anonymous.
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.
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