Flugplatz Chojna

Lage Flugplatz

SSW Chojna

Nutzung bis 1945

Luftwaffe Fliegerhorst Königsberg/Neumark

Nutzung im Kalten Krieg

Soviet/Russian airbase

Heutige Nutzung

Transfered to Polish authorities on 07JUL1992. Airfield is closed.

Jakub Sieradzki reported in 2007: Currently whole area has been tranferred to the local community and becomes step-by-step business (bunkers are used as storage facilities) and housing project

Start- und Landebahnen

Data for the year 1990:

Data for the year 1990:

The ident of the radio beacons in main landing direction 272° were made out of the first and the last letter of the airfield call sign ANTRAKT.

Flugfunk

The call sign was ANGARKA (known for the time 1965...1970) and later ANTRAKT (known for 1990).

Karten

Soviet airfield sketch

582 IAP, with 30..34 Su-27 in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Departed to Smolensk 05MAY92.

"Airfield with the surface of 423 hectares. Over 260 buildings of different types. Fuel station of 21,7 thousand meters3 of capacity. Property seriously devasted." (Source: www.bicc.de)

This story was reported by Jakub Sieradzki:

"It was one of the very last days of the soviet troops in Poland, when a lot of broken equipment still waited for the lift to the Soviet Union. One of the farmers living next to the area of the airfield has dreamed of having an airplane in his farm, so that he went to the airbase and started to negotiate with the guards possible ways of assisting him in the realisation of his dream. He finally succeeded and for some decent amount of spirit (I was told it was one bottle, but it's hard to belive) he bought one of the grounded planes (I was told it was a "small plane" - so possibly we are not dealing with Sukhoi in this story). Soviet soldiers were so helpfull, that even had dismantled fragments of the barbed-wire fence to make deal come faster. Unfortunately they were not equally ridgid to repair the fence, so that deal hass been discovered and the "small plane" retrieved to the Soviet Air Force. I guess alkohol has not been returned to the investor ..."

The following pictures were taken in july 2007. Courtesy of Jakub Sieradzki. Thank you very very much, Jakub!

Three pictures are retouched in small portions to protect privacy.

Shelter door
The graffiti left in front means "don't shit here" (slightly retouched)
Taxiway (slightly retouched)		(slightly retouched)

Chojna at Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.943466,14.420500&spn=0.031250,0.060176&t=...

Freundt, Lutz (Hrsg.), Büttner, Stefan:
'Rote Plätze - Russische Militärflugplätze in Deutschland 1945 - 1994'
AeroLit Verlag, 2007
Short description of the airfield history