{"id":193786,"date":"2025-04-01T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/10-oldest-european-airports-still-in-operation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:00:16","slug":"the-10-oldest-european-airports-still-in-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=193786","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Oldest European Airports Still In Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2041052\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/10-oldest-airports-in-operation-us\/\" >oldest operating airports in the United States<\/a><\/span> date back to the Wright Brothers. But what about Europe? Europe was the origin of human flight, which        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2024422\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/first-balloon-flight-history\/\" >occurred in France in 1783 in a balloon<\/a><\/span>, as well as many of the firsts in aviation. By the time of WWI,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2035575\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wright-brothers-delayed-development-us-air-force\/\" >protracted legal battles with the Wright Brothers<\/a><\/span> had contributed to holding the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> back in aviation relative to the Europeans. In the late 1910s, Europeans were at the forefront of aviation. Here is what to know about the oldest airports in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest airports in Europe trace their origins back to as early as 1909, with more founded in the 1910s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1054,13240,120,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airport","category-commercial-aviation","category-europe","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193787,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193786\/revisions\/193787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}