Plzeň-Bory, Letiště

Airport Plzen-Bory[/heading]
The airport Plzen-Bory is one of the oldest in our territory.
Was established on military training ground in the year 1910.

the First take-offs in the plzeň region by a French pilot Jullerot with the aircraft Farman 15. may 1910 at the racetrack in Malesicích (today the field west of Malesic). Already a month before, then 15.4. 1910 is in Pilsen established the first regular and permanent aerodromem in the Czech republic. This day has taken, than shipwrecked, a couple of jumps at the army parade ground in the Pilsen-Bory aviatik Schweizer with the aircraft Bleriot. The first world war there were pioneers aviatiky Scheme. After the war the airport is further served. For example, in the spring of 1919 there took off the first aircraft of Czech design, the aircraft Bohemia B-5. 30. years at the airport Plzen-Bory also acted Masaryk air league Plzen.

Borské military airport comes from 1937, but was completed by the German army during the II. world war.
During her serve the airport needs of the German Lufttwaffe and therefore, it was several times bombed. In may 1945, the airport Plzen-Bory occupied by the u.s. army. It then operated as its nevýchodnějí letišě, e.g. for the repatriation of former prisoners to the west (most, however, left the trains from a nearby railway station Plzen-Valcha).

Military airport in the pine forests played an important role in our post-war air force. In 1951 there was established 22. air fighter division of the piston, in 1953, with the current technique. In the summer of 1958 was from a military airport Plzen-Bory in the Lazy stationed of 45. artillery reconnaissance air regiment and with the security 30. airport banner. The půspobil on borském military airport the longest. In the 60's. years after the departure of fighters to Lazy to Areoklub moved north of the military airport and the old borské airport was cancelled. Today it is on its territory UNIVERSITY. Non-powered flying has shifted from the old borg collective airport to Letkova already in 1948. Since 1960 the use of the czechoslovak army helicopters. You arrived at the military airport Plzen-Bory. In particular machines types Me-1 and Me-4, later Mi-17 and Mi-24 In 1974 was at the military airport Plzen-Bory set up new 11. amphibious squadron and 1. the tie squadron. In 1985 it was set up 11. helicopter regiment which had in the arsenal of the Mi-24 and Mi-17. Operated with the Mi-24D also under the surveillance of the state border. Military airport Plzeň-Bory was repealed in the autumn of 1991
and 11. helicopter regiment moved to the Lazy. Helicopters have left the borské airport on Sunday, the 30th. September 1991.

The northern part of the airport served Aeroclub Pilsen-Bory. The airport also served for the needs of the aircraft pilsen Skoda. What I remember so had a Turbolet and a Moravia. In the nineties vziká here, Skoda Air, but later cancelled. Since 1990, 1. ltvpz in Líních began to prepare for the operation (LZS). From 1.5.1991 líňská 1. ltvpz began to operate around the centre of the LZS Krystof 07 (from 1.1.1993 Rescue 214). Today it is in Líních displaced Center air ambulance service. The advantage of the military medical helicopters is that they can fly under adverse conditions, in clouds and in the night.

the Airport was definitively abolished in 1995,
and
in 1996, the Aeroclub Pilsen-Bory moved to the Letkov even with one of their hangars. Today is in the area of the former military airport industrial zone and from the hangars of today are warehouses. A large hangar on the borském the airport, which stood here already in the days of the first republic airport lay in October 2007 ashes. So this is already a long time ago, when the Borských fields was a functional airport, but they're still visible here, even if a vanishing "trace".

On fotomapě from the years 2002-2003 (www.mapy.cz) is still in the middle of the visible ex-landing strip (the site of today's Daikinu) in the east-west direction. On the southern edge of the forest still see the hangars (now the warehouses or not), in place of today's Daimler street was zkladna helicopters.

Source: www.waymarking.com.