Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport
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Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport is a no longer functioning airport in Kraków, Poland, one of the oldest permanent airfields in Europe. A small portion of it is now the site of the Polish Aviation Museum.
The airfield has its beginnings in 1912 as a military airport, when it was organized for the needs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1917 the airfield became one of the stages in the first European air mail service linking Vienna with Kiev and Odessa.
The airport was in continuous use through 1963, until the encroachment of a new steelworks and its housing developments, which caused the airport operations for Kraków to be moved 10 miles West to Balice.
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