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
Forrest City Municipal Airport x 15 m). For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2010, the airport had 44,300 aircraft operations, an average of 121 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. Forrest City Municipal Airport Forrest City Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) south of the central business district of Forrest City, in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a "general aviation" facility. Forrest City Municipal Airport covers an area of 80 acres (32