Batlava-Donja Penduha Airfield
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Batlava Airport is a military airport in Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

, near Lake Batlava
Lake Batlava
Batlava Lake refers to both a lake and resort located in Kosovo.-History:The local village of Batlava was founded by Serbian workers in electrodistribution. Until 1932, the Ristić family was the only family to have lived in the village. They eventually relocated elsewhere in Serbia due to the...

 and the towns of Batlava and Podujevo
Podujevo
Podujevo or Podujeva is a town and municipality located in the district of Pristina of north-eastern Kosovo.Podujevo is situated in a strategic position due to a regional motorway and railroad passing through it which links surrounding regions. Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, is located some to...

.

History

In 1936, Aeroput
Aeroput
Aeroput was the national airline of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which was founded on 17 June 1927 in the palace of the Adriatic and the Danube bank in Belgrade as Drustvo za Vazdusni Saobracaj A D – Aeroput ...

 used airport on route Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

-Podujevo
Podujevo
Podujevo or Podujeva is a town and municipality located in the district of Pristina of north-eastern Kosovo.Podujevo is situated in a strategic position due to a regional motorway and railroad passing through it which links surrounding regions. Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, is located some to...

-Skopje
Skopje
Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

 with Aeroput MMS-3 plane.

The airport was rebuilt for military use by the Yugoslav army and air force.

It was damaged in 1999 when NATO bombed the former Yugoslavia.

External links

DONJA PENDUHA AIRFIELD, SERBIA
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