Berlin Tegel Airport eminent aerospace engineers, which included German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun. In 1937, the rocket pioneers left Tegel in favour of the secret Peenemünde army research centre. During World War II, the area served once again as a military training area, mostly for Flak troops. It was destroyed in Allied air raids. Plans for converting the area into allotment gardens were shelved due to the Berlin Blockade, which began on 24 June 1948. In the ensuing US-led Berlin Airlift, it quickly turned out that Berlin's existing main airport at Tempelhof was not big enough to accommodate all relief aircraft. As
Budaörs Airport Budaörs Airport Budaörs Airport (), is an airport located to the south-west of Budapest, Hungary. Now serving general aviation, it was once Hungary's only international airport. Until the opening of Budaörs, Budapest's main airport was Mátyásföld Airfield (), east of Budapest. This was a very small airfield, and a replacement was established at Budaörs, at the south-western limit of Budapest's city boundary. Half of the airfield is within the city boundary, and half in Budaörs, in Pest County. Planning for the airport started in 1935, and in 1936 design competitions for the terminal and main hangar were held. Construction started