From: Seppo.Sipila@NOSPAM.hut.fi 
  
 Here is a bit of aviation history: 
  
 67 years ago, on 16 December 1936 in Finland, Helsinki Airport at 
 Malmi was first opened to traffic. 
  
 Helsinki-Malmi Airport is possibly the best-preserved still active 
 international airport left in the world from the pre-WWII era. The 
 milieu of this internationally acclaimed functionalist airport is 
 almost unchanged in shape and size from it's 1930's appearance. Even 
 the old runways are all there, although only two of them are in use 
 nowadays. Helsinki-Malmi is the general aviation oasis of the Finnish 
 capital region and by far the biggest pilot training center in the 
 country. 
  
 In September 2003, Helsinki-Malmi Airport was selected onto World 
 Monument Fund's List of 100 Most Endangered Cultural Sites (see 
 http://www.wmf.org for details). 
  
 A web page about the opening to traffic of the Airport is available at 
 http://www.tky.hut.fi/~pik/malmi/malmi-67-e.htm . 
  
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