Hasselt

50°58'15"N 005°22'35"E

Runway: 09 / 27 - 600x18meter/1969x56feet - Asphalt

Airfield Hasselt (Dutch: vliegveld Hasselt, ICAO: EBZH) is an airfield near Hasselt, in the province of Limburg, Belgium.
The airfield is often called after the local flying club Aero-Kiewit (Kiewit = Lark). 
The airfield is the oldest in Belgium, having started in 1909, only 6 years after the Wright brothers took to the air for the first powered flight in the world. A year later it was the site of the first-ever airshow in Belgium, drawing a crowd of 15,000. From that moment on, the Kiewit-Airfield was established as a testing area for new airplanes from famous manufacturers like Henry Farman and Louis Blériot and it became the basis for the first official Pilot Training School.
By the late 1920s the Limburg Aviation Club was founded at the airfield.
During World War II the airfield was used by the Germans as a decoy airfield.

Various efforts to reopen the airfield after the war were unsuccessful until a group of highly motivated pilots founded flying club Aero-Kiewit vzw on 6 February 1969. They managed to have the airfield officially re-opened by Minister A. Bertrand on October 3rd the very same year. Since it has become home base of about 40 flying club and privately-owned airplanes and of Glider Club Albatros.


Map of Hasselt (Aero-Kiewit).