Reading related to Malmi Airport

Helsinki-Malmi Airport: A threatened pearl of 1930's functionalism

• History
• Present
• Threatened future
• What makes Malmi Airport as a whole a unique cultural treasure?

Some hard facts about Malmi Airport with references

• 10 reasons to preserve Helsinki-Malmi Airport
• Common misconceptions about aviation and Malmi Airport

Pentti Salminen: From swamp to main airport in Finland I-II

• The first 10 years
• Malmi Airport is 65 years old

Press excerpts and tidbits from the old days

• Malmi Airport opened to traffic on 16 December 1936
• The "blind landing" apparatus of Malmi Airport in the 1930's - top-notch technology of its time
• The giant of the skies "Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg" visited on 29 July 1937

Malmi Airport: public recognition and statements from experts

• Malmi Airport selected to World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites 2006
• Gallup Finland, December 2005: more than 630.000 capital region residents want to keep Malmi Airport in aviation use
• Gallup Finland, October 2004: a majority of Helsinki residents are in favor of keeping Malmi Airport in aviation use
• Malmi Airport selected to World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites 2004
• FAI honorary diploma to the Friends of Malmi Airport Society 2002
• Helsinki of Dreams Award, 5 March 2004
• Ministry of the Environment and National Board of Antiquities: Year of Built Heritage 2003 - Building of the Month / May (in Finnish only)
• Flight Safety Authority Finland, Annual Review 2002, Review by the Director p. 5
• Flight Safety Authority Finland, Annual Review 2000, Review by the Director p. 5
• FAI honorary diploma to Malmi Airport 1996