PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11106 posts, RR: 63 Reply 3, posted (5 years 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2696 times:
I suppose it depends how you are defining it; the age of the terminal buildings, or the time when the loation was first used as an airfield?
I really don't have time to look up the oldest by either definition, but I'd say the newest I have been to is probably HKG for airfield site, and for terminal buildings it would be ORK.
Toulouse From Ireland, joined Apr 2005, 2718 posts, RR: 59 Reply 12, posted (5 years 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2516 times:
I suppose my "native" hometown airport of Dublin might be the oldest I've used as your question is for from the location was used as an "airfield". The site of today's DUB (Collinstown" was originally a British military based used during WW1, yet from 1922 use of the airfield ended in 1922. When the Irish government set up Aer Lingus in 1936 it initially used the military facilities of Casemont aerodrome in Baldonnel (still used today), but the decided shortly after that a civil airport should be built to serve Dublin and they selected the Collinstown military airfield. Construction of the new airport started in 1936 yet the ainaugural flight didn't take place place until January 19 1940. So today's DUB is located on a pretty old airfield used during WW1 so as an airfield it's at least around 90 years old, yet it has only been used as a civil airport since 1940.
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