Oldest Airport?

Do you know which is the oldest airport in the world?

If you’re looking for the oldest airport with terminals and plane tickets, look no further than Hamburg Airport, established in 1911.

But while America was building its aviation history on airplanes, Germany built the facility around the country’s own technology: Zeppelins.

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the inventor of the Zeppelin airship in the 1890s, gave an enthusiastic speech about the future of air travel in Hamburg in 1910.

Residents believed in his vision, and the first building at the Hamburg Airport was an airship hangar, built in 1912. However, it took less than a decade for airplanes to start taking over.

The airport broke the one-million passenger mark in 1961.

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