Cerklje Air Base

Letališče Cerklje ob Krki

Cerklje: Air Base

Letališče Cerklje ob Krki, Brežice

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CoordinatesN455360 E0153156 (WGS84) Google Maps
Location indicatorLJCE
Map with location of Cerklje Air Base, Slovenia
The history of the Cold War airfields: Cerklje

General

Cerklje was an airfield of the Yugoslav People's Army. As a special feature it had a distant dispersal area, about 2 km southwest. The route between the airfield and the dispersal area could be used as a runway.

During the Cold War

In the 1960s

Overview

Cerklje Air Base, Yugoslavia (today Slovenia), on a US satellite image 1969
Cerklje Air Base and surroundings on a US satellite image from 26 July 1969. - 1=airfield; 2=emergency runway; 3=remote dispersal area; 4=SAM site
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Cerklje airfield
The airfield
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Emergency runway, remote dispersal, SAM site Cerklje
Emergency runway, remote dispersal and SAM site - Apparently, there was a connection path from the decentralization area to the anti-aircraft missile site at that time.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey

In the 1980s and early 1990s

Situation

Cerklje Air Base on a US map 1981
Cerklje Air Base on a map of the US Department of Defense from 1981
Source: ONC F-2 (1981), Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin

Today

Use

Slovenian air base. The remote dispersal area in the southwest is used as racetrack "Gaj circuit" (formerly "Mobikrog")

Overview

Cerklje Air Base: Map
(1)Main runway
(2)Grass runway
(3) Emergency runway
(4) Remote dispersal area
(5)Additions built later for the race track
(6)Race track passes through a shelter
(7)Barracks
(8)Gorica surface-to-air missile site

Runways

  • 09/27: 2432 m x 46 m Asphalt
  • 05/23: 2200 m Emergency runway, closed

Installations

In addition to the main runway, the airfield had an emergency runway in south-western direction. At the end was a remote dispersal areas with shelters. About 4 km southwest of the airfield was a anti-aircraft missile base.

Images

The emergency runway and the former dispersal area in 2005
Zasap: Gate from the airfield to the emergency runway
Gate from the airfield to the emergency runway (near Zasap)
Emergency runway Letališče Cerklje, Slovenija
Emergency runway, looking southwest
Mobikrog racetrack / Gaj circuit, Cerklje, Slovenia
Gate to Mobikrog racetrack (today Gaj circuit)
Shelter at the Slovenian air base at Cerklje
Shelter
Mobikrog race track / Gaj circuit
The racetracks runs through a shelter
A taxiway, now racetrack
A taxiway, now racetrack
Barricades at the end of a taxiway at Cerklje aerodrome
Barricades at the terminating circle of a taxiway
Pictures from the former anti-aircraft missile site at Gorica, about 4 km south-southwest of the airfield.
Gate to the S-75 (SA-2) SAM site
Gate
Yugoslav SAM site near Gorica: Barricades
Barricades
Anti-aircraft missile site Gorica, former Yugoslavia
Way on the site
Buildings at the gate to the Surface-to-air missile site Gorica, Slovenia
Buildings at the gate
Gorica near Cerklje, Buildings at the missile site
Buildings

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