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(based on Hans v. Przychowski's "Luftverkehr in Berlin" - 1996)
Illustrate only with screenshots from the Microsoft
Flight Simulator
1945-47
THE LAST DAYS OF WW II. IN EUROPE
April 22.: Soviet troops take on the command of the airfield of the Henschel aircraft factory in Schönefeld near Berlin.
April 26.: Soviet troops take on the command of the airport Berlin-Gatow.
April 28.: Soviet troops take on the command of the airport Berlin-Tempelhof.
THE FOUR VICTORIOUS POWERS IN BERLIN
June 29.: The four Victorious Powers decide that the West Allies
get their own air connections to their Berlin sectors.
July 4.: The US Air Force take on the command of the airport Berlin-Tempelhof (American Sector of Berlin) and start to build a new pierced steel planking runway (1400 m).
August 8.: A new pierced steel planking runway is built also
in Gatow.
November 30: The Allied Control Council decides to establish
3 flight corridors from West-Germany to West-Berlin and the so called Berlin
Controle Zone. (The Allied Control Council was the supreme governing body
of the Victorious Powers in the Second World War set up to administer Germany
as whole.)
FIRST REGULAR AIR TRAFFIC TO WEST-BERLIN
May 18.: The American Overseas Airlines (AOA) starts the first regular air traffic to West Berlin. Once weekly AOA flies the route New York - Shannon - Amsterdam - Frankfurt/M - Berlin-Tempelhof with a DC-4.
September 1.: British European Airways (BEA) starts regular air traffic on the route London - Hamburg - Berlin-Gatow (unless Sunday daily flown with a DC-3 Dakota).
December: Soviet Aeroflot and Polish LOT approach Berlin-Schönefeld near Berlin.
BUILDING OF NEW RUNWAYS March 1.: The Royal Air Force starts to build a new 1.830 m long runway with concrete surface in Berlin-Gatow.
May 16.: The decision is made to improve Schönefeld, the former work airport of the Henschel airplane factory, to the new East Berlin airport.
May 27: Start of building for the prolongation of the runway
on 2000 m in Schönefeld.
The chronicle will be continued!
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