Kraków Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport serves Kraków, PL.
Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport (PL-0272) was a significant historical airfield in Kraków, Poland, established in 1912 as a military airport for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later becoming one of Europe's oldest permanent airfields. It was continuously used until 1963, when its operations ceased due to the expansion of the nearby Nowa Huta district and the relocation of Kraków's passenger airport to Balice.
Today, a portion of the disused airfield is home to the Polish Aviation Museum, which was established in 1964 and occupies 25.7 hectares of land listed in the register of historic monuments. A 720-meter long and 60-meter wide segment of the original concrete runway has been restored for use by the museum for light aircraft and helicopters, and it also serves as a police helicopter base and hosts an annual air show.
*Sources researched: muzeumlotnictwa.pl, en.wikipedia.org, pl.wikipedia.org, airports-worldwide.com*
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Kraków Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport is located in Kraków, PL, at an elevation of 732 ft. Its IATA code is — and ICAO code is PL-0272.