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Similar land codes were adopted by other republics of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1929. After the universal agricultural collectivization, land codes of the Soviet republics lost their significance. In 1970–1971, the Soviet Union adopted new land codes in all of the republics. The 1970 Land Code of the RSFSR was adopted on December 1, 1970.
The route was developed in 1942 for several reasons. Initially, the 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command, United States Army Air Corps (later Air Transport Command) at Gore Field (Great Falls Municipal Airport) was ordered to organize and develop an air route to send assistance to the Soviet Union through Northern Canada, across Alaska and the Bering Sea to Siberia, and eventually over to the ...
The air corridors connected the three West Berlin airports of Tempelhof, Tegel and Gatow with other airfields/airports. Each air corridor was only 20 mi (32 km) wide, while the circular-shaped control zone had a 20 mi (32 km) radius, making it 40 mi (64 km) in diameter; thus allowing aircraft room to manoeuvre for weather and take-off and landing.
Area in front of airport building, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 1974. The Soviet Union had 7,192 airports, of which 1,163 had paved surface. [29] By the 1980s most airports were having capacity problems, an example being the Lviv airport which had to cope with an average of 840 passengers each day, while the airport was built to handle 200.
Soon, by the end of 1965, a majority of international flights to the USSR was achieved through Sheremetyevo thanks to Aeroflot's air traffic agreements with 47 countries. In the early 1970s, a second runway was constructed at Sheremetyevo, with the first airliner to land being an Ilyushin Il-62. [10]
Aeroflot service between the Soviet Union and the United States was interrupted from 15 September 1983 until 2 August 1990, following an executive order by U.S. President Ronald Reagan revoking Aeroflot's license to operate flights into and out of the United States following the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by the Soviet Air Force ...
Leif Viking (LN-LMP) from SAS was the first airplane to use the polar route for regular flights. Here Leif Viking becomes christened by Cyd Charisse on 18 November 1954.. Of the commercial airlines, SAS was first: their Douglas DC-6B flights between Los Angeles and Copenhagen, via Kangerlussuaq and Winnipeg, started on November 15, 1954. [4]
Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport: Terminated [17] China: Beijing: Beijing Capital International Airport: Terminated [11] [19] Beijing Daxing International Airport: Passenger [19] [20] Chengdu: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport: Terminated [21] Chengdu Tianfu International Airport: Passenger [22] [23] Guangzhou: Guangzhou ...