Szczytno-Szymany International Airport
I1 i3
I8 i10 i12
The International Airport Szczytno - Szymany is a current of idle Polish regional airport located in the village Szymany (German: United Schiemanen ), which is about ten kilometers from the city center Szczytnos ( German: Ortel Castle ) is located in the Warmia and Mazury in the north of Poland. This airport is the only one in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Since late 2006, the flight mode is set.
History
The airport was built in the 1950s as a military airfield. After the Air Force had no further use for the airport, he was in 1996 by the Polish Agency for military buildings ( Agencja Mienia Wojskowego ) leased to a private company to weiterzubetreiben him as a civilian airport. As of 1996, the airport served mainly of general aviation and charter flights, but there was also seasonally limited line of traffic in the summer.
2005 showed the Irish airline Ryanair interested in regular flights to Szymany. However, Ryanair expected repair work on the runway and an expansion of the airport terminal. The cost of the required construction work was estimated to be 1.5 million zloty.
In October 2006, the airport company and the Agencja Mienia Wojskowego signed an initially limited to five years lease with option to renew. After that, the airport company sought to financial support of the airport expansion. Since the end of 2006, the airport operation is set.
At a meeting convened by the airport company press conference on 13 January 2007, the Woiwodschaftsverwaltung for the impending bankruptcy of the airport company, the chairman of the company, Jarosław Jurczenko made responsible and announced to turn the prosecutor's office.
Use by the CIA
In 2005, the airport became briefly famous in the international press. The CIA was alleged to have operated in the vicinity of the airport, in Stare Kiejkuty, a secret prison ( BlackSite ) in which Islamist terrorism suspects were detained and tortured, which is also contrary to Polish law.
In June 2007 the Special Prosecutor of Europe, Dick Marty, his investigation report to the secret prisoner transports by the CIA. According to this report revealed his investigation, that there had been between 2002 and 2005 "at least 10 flights with at least 4 different aircraft ', which were related to the secret prisons. The most important Flights referred the investigation report:
In the report, Marty writes:
"We were eight names of ' High Value Detainees ' confirmed - any name of more than one source - that were held in Poland between 2003 and 2005. More precisely, our sources within the CIA called ourselves Poland than those 'Black Site ', in the Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were detained and were interviewed by the use of ' enhanced interrogation techniques '. "
Marty also writes that "it is remarkable that the well-known prisoner transport aircraft N379P has made a secret flight from Kabul to Szymany on 7 March 2003, less than a week after the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ," one of the allegedly responsible for the attacks of 11 September 2001. might therefore served the Szymany airport in the rendition of CIA prisoners in a secret prison on the nearby base of the Polish foreign Intelligence in Stare Kiejkuty (Alt Keykuth ).
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights announced on February 21, 2010 at a press conference in Warsaw by the Board member Adam Bodnar, that as of September 2003, six aircraft movements from Afghanistan and took place from Morocco to the airport Szymany in the period from February. The aircraft would have had the identification N63MU, N379P N313P and. This information would have resulted from official statistical data. Confirmation that had landed [in] Poland CIA machinery does not prove, according to Bodnar of the Helsinki Foundation, however, that there were secret CIA prisons in Poland. All Polish governments have been vehemently denied such allegations. In August 2008, an investigation was initiated in Poland yet.
Future
For a planned restart of the airfield, especially for the region of Olsztyn, the railway line Olsztyn - Pisz and disused for more than ten years of railroad track will be renewed in the airport. The airport terminal is provided with a siding. The work should be completed by 2013.