Cerklje ob Krki Airbase
|
Cerklje ob Krki Airport Letališče Cerklje |
|||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||||||||||||||
| Summary | |||||||||||||||
| Airport type | Military airport | ||||||||||||||
| Operator |
Royal Yugoslav Army (1930s–1941), Nazi German Wehrmacht (1941–1945), Yugoslav People's Army (1945–1991), Slovenian Armed Forces, NATO (1991–present) |
||||||||||||||
| Location | Cerklje ob Krki, Slovenia | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 157 m / 510 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°53′59″N 15°30′55″E / 45.89972°N 15.51528°ECoordinates: 45°53′59″N 15°30′55″E / 45.89972°N 15.51528°E | ||||||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
Cerklje ob Krki Airport (Slovene: Letališče Cerklje ob Krki) is the only military airport in Slovenia, and a civilian airport. The Cerklje ob Krki Air Base operates at it. The airport is in the midst of an enlargement and restructuring.
The earliest existence of the airport in Cerklje ob Krki was in the 1930s, where a grass runway created an auxiliary airfield. The military authorities of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia decided to build an airport in the location due to technical data based on favorable weather and geographical conditions. Whilst there were several airports in Slovenia at the time, only Cerklje was used strictly for military purposes. Due to this, less archival material exists to testify the airport's construction and development, though it is known to have taken place after larger facilities in Ljubljana and Maribor. Permanent infrastructure was built slowly following the grass runway was established, with wooden hangars.
In 1941 the Axis forces unexpectedly attacked the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the first wave took place from the air. In April War, the air forces of the axis in a few days destroyed Kingdom of Yugoslavia Army Aviation. At the airport was then housed unit 6th air patrol group of Army Aviation, which operated for the purposes of the 7th Army. Army aviation units were on combat operations very poorly equipped for combat with their opponents. On the first day of the war early in the morning, the unit lost nine aircraft and is the remaining planes, the three Breguet XIX and a Fieseler Fi-156 "Stork", presented at the airport in a hillock nearby.
The German occupying forces in the Autumn of 1941 carried out further consolidation, expanded and extended the landing-runway and built three brick buildings. Construction was completed in spring 1942. German occupying aviation is through the act of war against the rebels in battle facts, reconnaissance and in support of land forces with a number of different units. Very important is the role of play in the German operation "Roselsprung" and landing on 25th Drvar May 1944.
...
Wikipedia