Vajnory Airport

Vajnory Airport

Letisko Vajnory
Summary
LocationVajnory, Slovakia
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Vajnory Airport (ICAO: LZVB)[1][2] was an airfield located near the village of Vajnory, close to Slovakia's capital Bratislava. The airfield was opened in the early 1910s. On 4 May 1919, the Czechoslovak war minister Milan Rastislav Štefánik died during an unsuccessful landing attempt at the Vajnory airport. From 1923 to 1951, the airfield was used by the Czechoslovak Airlines for regular domestic flights to Prague. Afterward, it was replaced by the newly opened Milan Rastislav Štefánik Airport and only used by the local flying club. The airport was officially closed in January 2007.[3]

On 21 July 2024, the airport served as the venue of an AC/DC concert, which made a record for the highest attendance of a musical event in the history of Slovakia, with over 100,000 people in attendance.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Airport information for LZVB at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. ^ Accident history for LZVB at Aviation Safety Network
  3. ^ Kiňo, Martin (25 November 2019). "Letisko Vajnory - schátraný míľnik letectva na Slovensku - PlanetSlovakia.sk". www.planetslovakia.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  4. ^ "FOTO: Bratislava má nový rekord. Na koncert AC/DC prišlo vyše 130-tisíc ľudí". refresher.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 22 July 2024.

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