Komotini (Κομοτηνής)

41°06'35"N 025°19'19"E

Runway: 03/21 - 1200x45m - gravel/concrete (CLOSED)
Runway: 03/21 - 550x40m - gravel/grass

Komotini air field (Greek: Αεροδρόμιο Κομοτηνής) is a small airfield 375 kilometer north-northeast of Athens.
It consists of a small General Aviation airfield with some sheds, adjacent to an abandoned military airfield, for which plans were launched around 2008 to restart it as a General Aviation airfield called Aerosport Center Komotini (Greek: Αεραθλητικό Κέντρο Κομοτηνής). 


The old and abandoned Komotini air field in 2003 (Google Earth).

The original plan encompassed:

Given the current (2015) state of the Greek economy this is unlikely to occur soon, although a small airfield was started at the site in 2010. It consists of a small platform with some small aircraft sheds for hangarage and an approximately 550m grass/gravel runway to the northwest of the old military runway.


In 2010, a small civilian platform with a grass runway appeared on the northwest side of the abandoned military airfield. The platform of the original airfield had seen an additional building between it and the runway (Google Earth).


Not much had changed three years later. In 2013, the Greek economic crisis was still raging with bankruptcy on the horizon. No wonder that investing in a civilian General Aviation airport was low on the priority list (Google Earth).


Still, the civilian side of the airport did see use, as proven by the aircraft on the platform in this enlargement of the 2013 overview (Google Earth).