Tegel Airport
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(Local Name: Flughafen Otto Lilienthal) 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. It was specially extended for that purpose, and the 2,400 m/2,625yd runway, then the longest in Europe, was laid. Later it became a French military airfield, which from 1960 was also used for civil
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