The saga of two Icelandic Airports

摘要

Reykjavik airport can be traced back to 1919, when an Avro 504 took off from the site of the present-day airport for the first time. This first experiment with powered flight in the country was short-lived. By 1921, the meadow had returned to farm use. Nine years later, aircraft operations came back to the area, when a couple of Dutch Fokker DVII weather observation aircraft were based there for a year. Finally, on March 8, 1940, the Reykjavik City Council selected the meadow for the location of the city's future international airport.