Tegel Airport Flughafen Otto Lilienthal
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Tegel Airport in Berlin's Reinickendorf district has had a varied history. At first, around 1870, it was an army shooting range and in 1909 Count Zeppelin landed there in his airship Z3. Later it became a training ground for airship crews and finally a rocket testing site, where Hermann Oberth and Werner von Braun carried out their first rocket trials in 1931. During the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 it was used by the aircraft bringing in supplies in the famous Berlin air-lift.
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The development of the airport to its present size began in 1969. In October 1974 the new Tegel Airport was inaugurated and became fully operational on Sept. 1, 1975. Further extension in the nineties is being contested on environmental grounds; however, there is a strong lobby in favor of increasing the passenger capacity to 14million a year.
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Facilities: Restaurant or food service
Transit: Bus: 109, 128.
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