Cerklje ob Krki Airport: Difference between revisions

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The German occupying forces in the Autumn of 1941 carried out further consolidation, expanded and extended the landing-runway and built three brick buildings. Construction was completed in spring 1942. [[Nazi Germany|German]] occupying aviation is through the act of war against the rebels in battle facts, reconnaissance and in support of land forces with a number of different units. Very important is the role of play in the German operation "Roselsprung" and landing on the 25th Drvar May 1944.

As an extremely strategic position was also attractive to partisans attacks by war twice in the attack, at the end of the war, however, attacked the [[Yugoslav Partisans|partisan]] and the axis aviation. The airport was liberated 9th9 May 1945.

Upon the completion of the second World War, the airport was taken over by the [[Yugoslav People's Army]]. By then the airfield was modified only by the updating of the runway at the tightening of the west neighbor in the so-called crisis in [[Trieste]] in [[1953]]. That year the Yugoslav air force increased the number of aircraft and troops. At the end of the crisis, the airport remained a key for the defense of the Northwest airspace of [[Yugoslavia]]. In the events in 1991 all of the Yugoslav units retreated to [[BiH]] and [[Serbia]].

On 7 December 2006, the Slovenian Minister of Defence [[Karl Erjavec]] and three other Slovenian ministers signed a protocol about a reconstruction and development of the airport, including the building of the facilities that would enable for a transient landing of [[NATO]] aircraft.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sta.si/vest.php?s=s&id=1114373 |title=Ministers Sign Cerklje Airport Reconstruction Document |date=7 December 2006 |publisher=Slovenia Press Agency}}</ref><ref name="Nacional47442">{{cite news |url=http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/47442/cerklje-slovenski-udar-na-pleso |title=Zračna bitka za Zagreb: Cerklje slovenski udar na Pleso |language=Croatian |trans_title=An Air Battle for Zagreb: Cerklje, the Slovenian Attack of Plesa |date=22 July 2008 |newspaper=Nacional |issue=662 |first=Eduard |last=Šoštarić}}</ref> The move has been unpopular among Croatian residents, who have been concerned that the base would cause environmental and economic disruption.<ref name="Nacional47442" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.limun.hr/en/main.aspx?id=159374 |newspaper=Limun.hr |title=The Government is keeping the arrival of a NATO base to the border a secret |date=17 May 2007}}</ref><ref name="Nacional47442" /> The renovation is part of a larger development plan of the area, named [[Project Phoenix]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://posavje.info/novice-volitve/najpomembnejse-je-sodelovanje-na-lokalnem-regionalnem-in-drzavnem-nivoju.html |title=„NajpomembnejšeNajpomembnejše je sodelovanje na lokalnem, regionalnem in državnem nivoju" |language=Slovene |trans_title="The Most Important is a Cooperation on the Local, Regional, and National Level |newspaper=Posavje.info |date=4 November 2011}}</ref> which includes the building of a civil terminal and of large business and economic areas.<ref name="Nacional47442" />