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Cluj International Airport〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cum se va numi de azi aeroportul din Cluj )〕 is an airport serving the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Initially known as ''Someșeni Airport'', it is located east of the city centre, in the Someșeni area, which is now within the Cluj-Napoca city limits.〔 The airport is named in honour of Romanian revolutionary Avram Iancu. In terms of passengers' traffic, Cluj Airport is the second largest airport in Romania, after Bucharest Henri Coandă, handling 1.18 million passengers in 2014. Its size and location (on the European route E576 and close to A3 Transylvania Motorway) makes it an important airport in the historical region of Transylvania. ==History== Cluj Airport was founded on 1 April 1932 by the Romanian Ministry of Industry and Trade. Until the civil airport was built, the first operations used the Someşeni Military Aerodrome that was founded by the Romanian National Service of Air Navigation ((ルーマニア語、モルドバ語():Serviciul Naţional de Navigaţie Aerianǎ SNNA)) in 1928. The SNNA was set up by the Romanian Ministry of War for opening an air transportation line between Cluj and Bucharest. The first aircraft used was the Farman-Goliath aircraft, a twin-engine plane with space for ten passengers built by the Farman Aviation Works. In 1933, Cluj Airport was declared an International Airport by the Romanian Government. The first international flight, a CSA Czech Airlines Prague-Cluj-Bucharest flight, took place on 11 September 1933. The aircraft used on this route were eight-seat Avia-Fokker aircraft. In the following years, several new routes were opened, such as the Aeroflot Moscow-Cluj-Prague flight, opened on 15 November 1935, which was operated with 14-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-2 twin-engine aircraft, registered as USSR-M25 and USSR-M26. Internal flights were also operated in this period, such as Cluj-Satu-Mare and Cernăuţi-Cluj-Arad using Lockheed Model 10 Electra ten-passenger aircraft and de Havilland Dragon Rapide aircraft. In the late 1930s the airport recorded a steady growth and the employees number rose from 6 in 1934 to 16 in 1939. The passenger terminal was also built in this period, being inaugurated in 1939. During World War II, the airport became a military airport, as it was considered to be the most important in Transylvania. In 1940, as a result of the Second Vienna Award, Northern Transylvania (including Cluj) was ceded to Hungary and thus the airport was used by the Hungarian Air Force and German Luftwaffe. Malert airline also operated flights to Budapest during these years. In October 1944, the Hungarian forces in the city were defeated by the Romanian and Soviet armies. By the time of the reconquest of the airport by the Romanian No. 4 Fighting Squadron ''Focşani'', in late September 1944, the airport was completely destroyed. After the war, the airport's operations were resumed with TAROM internal flights connecting Cluj to other major Romanian cities. The aircraft used were the Lisunov Li-2 / Douglas DC-3 and Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft. In the 1960s, an extensive modernization of the airport began. In 1969, a new passenger terminal was opened. By 1970, the airport was fully equipped with all of the safety facilities. The airport remained a domestic airport until September 1996, when it was once again opened to both international passenger and cargo traffic. The extension of the terminal building was also started in 1996 and since August 1997 it is run by the Cluj County Council. By 2001, the extension of the airport building was finished, the runway lighting system was modernized, and an Instrument Landing System (ILS) CAT I equipment was implemented. In 2007 and 2008, the Cluj airport had the most spectacular evolution in recent years, with a year-over-year growth of 60% and 93% respectively, reaching over 750,000 passengers in 2008. The construction of a new terminal, capable of handling 2 million passengers annually, started on 26 June 2007. The arrivals hall was inaugurated on May 22, 2008,〔(Aeroport Cluj )〕 followed by the new departures hall, with a total area of , inaugurated in May 2009.〔(Cluj-Napoca Airport has a new departures terminal )〕 Total project cost was an estimated €40 million.〔〔(The Arrivals hall ) 〕 In February 2009, the ILS equipment was upgraded to CAT II. On 8 September 2011, the construction works for building a new runway of began. The works represented the first phase of the investment that aims at a take-off/landing runway of .〔(The beginning of the construction works for Cluj-Napoca International Airport's new runway )〕 The new runway 07/25 officially went into operation on 26 October 2013.〔(Noua pistă a Aeroportului Cluj-Napoca, inaugurată în 26 octombrie ) 〕 The old runway 08/26 became a taxiway, after the new runway opened.〔 Cluj Airport exceeded the 1,000,000 passenger mark in 2010.〔(Cu pasagerul 1.000.000, Aeroportul Cluj devine lider regional )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cluj International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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