Malmi airport
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Helsinki-Malmi Airport Helsinki-Malmin lentoasema Helsingfors-Malm flygplats |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Malmi Airfield Association | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Helsinki, Finland | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | December 16, 1936 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 17 m / 57 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 60°15′14″N 025°02′39″E / 60.25389°N 25.04417°ECoordinates: 60°15′14″N 025°02′39″E / 60.25389°N 25.04417°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | malmiairport.fi | ||||||||||||||
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Source: AIP Finland
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| Passengers | 1,285 |
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| Landings | 47,144 |
Helsinki-Malmi Airport (Finnish: Helsinki-Malmin lentoasema, Swedish: Helsingfors-Malm flygplats) (IATA: HEM, ICAO: EFHF) is an airport in the city of Helsinki, Finland, located in the district of Malmi, 5.4 NM (10.0 km; 6.2 mi) north north-east of the city centre. Until the opening of Helsinki Airport in 1952 it was the main airport of Helsinki and all Finland. Today, the airport is still actively used in general aviation and flight training. It still is the second busiest airport in Finland after Helsinki Airport, as measured by the number of landings.
For a long time, the City of Helsinki has had plans to close the airport in order to use the area for construction of new residential zones, but this decision had been debated and deferred for many years.
The first land airport of Helsinki, located in Tattarisuo in the township of Malmi, became operational in December 1936. The area is nowadays in the district of Malmi in Helsinki. The airplanes of Aero Ltd (nowadays Finnair) were converted from floatplanes to land-based aircraft without delay and moved to the new Airport along with general aviation aircraft. The functionalist terminal building was completed in 1938 and designed by architects Dag Englund and Vera Rosendahl. The official opening ceremony took place on 15 May 1938.
Helsinki-Malmi Airport was among the first in the world to be designed from the beginning as an international airport. It made travel to and from the capital of Finland much faster than before. In the late 1930s, domestic air routes already reached all the major cities in Finland, and in 1940 it became possible to fly even to Petsamo in the far north.
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