Białystok-Krywlany Airport
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Białystok-Krywlany Airport is an airport
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 that serves Białystok, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

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History

The first plane piloted over Bialystok in 1910, Earl Michael Scipio del Campo, in the course of World War I hung over the city the German Zeppelins.
By the summer of 1915 the Z 12 had dropped around 9 tons of bombs on the trunk railway line between Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

 and Petrograd
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

 and the stations at Malkina and Bialystok
Bialystok
Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Located on the Podlaskie Plain on the banks of the Biała River, Białystok ranks second in terms of population density, eleventh in population, and thirteenth in area, of the cities of Poland...

; one flight carried a load of 3 tons.

Even then, there was a primitive airstrip.
The selection of the area of the airport has been a real 19 February 1930 on the premises of the Provincial Committee L0PP on Warsaw Street. A representative of the Department of Aerospace Engineer Hennenberg presented four alternatives for the location of the airport, calling it a professional "field of ups", indicating the area is situated between the property Dojlidy and forest west of the farm Krywlany. After three years of negotiations finally the selection was made. After all the formalities dopięciu in 1935 built the first hangar facilities and buildings.

How to give Miroslaw Mikiciuk and Jan Tadeusz Puśko (Opposite the storms and clouds), served as a backup landing base for the fifth Aviation Regiment in Lida. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II installed lighting for night flights and started to build a concrete runway. During World War II benefited from the use of the airport by German Air Force.

Shortly after the war created in the Bialystok Branch of the LOT Polish Airlines
LOT Polish Airlines
Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A. , trading as LOT Polish Airlines, is the flag carrier of Poland. Based in Warsaw, LOT was established in 1929, making it one of the world's oldest airlines still in operation. Using a fleet of 55 aircraft, LOT operates a complex network to 60 destinations in Europe,...

. On 30 April 1945 started flying airliners every week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays using Douglas DC-3
Douglas DC-3
The Douglas DC-3 is an American fixed-wing propeller-driven aircraft whose speed and range revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s. Its lasting impact on the airline industry and World War II makes it one of the most significant transport aircraft ever made...

 aircraft. The flight from Bialystok to Warsaw lasted 50 minutes and tickets cost $ 400. This service - as a relic of capitalism - was quickly discontinued. Since that time, the airport has not seen any regularly scheduled service, just gliders. During the mid-80s the border guards have stationed helicopters and light aircraft in addition to a helicopter ambulance.

Airlines and destinations

Airport
Airport
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City
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IATA
IATA airport code
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ICAO
ICAO airport code
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Purpose El.(m)
Elevation
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Direct.
Cardinal direction
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Surface
Surface
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Runway (m)
Runway
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Coordinates
Geographic coordinate system
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Białystok-Krywlany
Białystok-Krywlany Airport
Białystok-Krywlany Airport is an airport that serves Białystok, Poland.-History:The first plane piloted over Bialystok in 1910, Earl Michael Scipio del Campo, in the course of World War I hung over the city the German Zeppelins....


(only grass used)
Białystok QYY EPBK Sport
General aviation
General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...

, Border guard, EMT
Air ambulance
An air ambulance is an aircraft used for emergency medical assistance in situations where either a traditional ambulance cannot reach the scene easily or quickly enough, or the patient needs to be transported over a distance or terrain that makes air transportation the most practical transport....

153 14/32 Concrete
Concrete
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08/26 950 x 200, 01/19 880 x 200, 14R/32L 830 x 100, 14L/32R 830 x 40 - all grass
(1420 x 50 concrete not used)
53°06′05"N 23°10′14"E
Białystok-Krywlany
Białystok-Krywlany Airport
Białystok-Krywlany Airport is an airport that serves Białystok, Poland.-History:The first plane piloted over Bialystok in 1910, Earl Michael Scipio del Campo, in the course of World War I hung over the city the German Zeppelins....


(has also unusable paved rwy)
Białystok QYY EPBK Sport
General aviation
General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...

153 08/26 Grass
Grass
Grasses, or more technically graminoids, are monocotyledonous, usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include the "true grasses", of the Poaceae family, as well as the sedges and the rushes . The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns ...

950 x 200 53°06′14"N 23°10′41"E

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