Hello everyone! Here is a bit of aviation history:
67 years ago, on 16 December 1936 in Finland, Helsinki Airport at Malmi was first opened to traffic.
What's so special about that? Well, Helsinki-Malmi Airport is possibly the best-preserved still active international airport left in the world from the pre-WWII era. The milieu of this internationally acclaimed functionalist airport is almost unchanged in shape and size from it's 1930's appearance. Even the old runways are all there, although only two of them are in use nowadays. Helsinki-Malmi is the general aviation oasis of the Finnish capital region and by far the biggest pilot training center in the country.
In September 2003, Helsinki-Malmi Airport was selected onto World Monument Fund's List of 100 Most Endangered Cultural Sites (see
http://www.wmf.org for details).
A web page about the opening to traffic of the Airport is available at
http://www.tky.hut.fi/~pik/malmi/malmi-67-e.htm .
-luny-
