Editing Airport (section)

== History and development ==
The earliest aircraft takeoff and landing sites were grassy fields.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1JcWmb9Ik8C&pg=PA154|title=Soft Landing: Airline Industry Strategy, Service, and Safety|last=Thomas|first=Andrew R.|date=2011|publisher=Apress|isbn=978-1-4302-3677-1|page=154}}</ref>

[[Beijing Nanyuan Airport]] in China, which was built to accommodate planes in 1904, and airships in 1907, opened in 1910.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2019/09/25/629668.html|title=再见！南苑机场的最后一晚和曾经辉煌的第一次 |date=2019-09-25 |website= bjnews.com.cn|access-date=September 28, 2019|archive-date=September 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925162033/http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2019/09/25/629668.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It was in operation until September 2019. [[Pearson Field Airport]] in [[Vancouver, Washington]], United States, was built to accommodate planes in 1905 and airships in 1911, and is still in use as of February 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 10, 2020 |title=Pearson Field – Fort Vancouver National Historic Site |url=https://www.nps.gov/fova/learn/historyculture/pearson.htm|access-date=2021-03-23|website=U.S. National Park Service|archive-date=March 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330022346/https://www.nps.gov/fova/learn/historyculture/pearson.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Hamburg Airport]] opened in January 1911, making it the oldest commercial airport in the world which is still in operation. [[Bremen Airport]] opened in 1913 and remains in use, although it served as an American military field between 1945 and 1949. [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol]] opened on September 16, 1916, as a military airfield, but has accepted [[Civil aviation|civil aircraft]] only since December 17, 1920, allowing [[Sydney Airport]]—which started operations in January 1920—to claim to be one of the world's oldest continuously operating commercial airports.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sydneyairport.com.au/NR/rdonlyres/353DC91E-A259-449B-8B68-C8E88CB58691/0/FactSheetHistory1.pdf |website=Sydney Airport |title=Airport History |access-date=July 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401043447/http://www.sydneyairport.com.au/NR/rdonlyres/353DC91E-A259-449B-8B68-C8E88CB58691/0/FactSheetHistory1.pdf |archive-date=April 1, 2009 }}</ref>
[[File:Bosasairp.jpg|thumb|The [[Bender Qassim International Airport]] in [[Bosaso]], Somalia (2007).]]
[[File:New Orleans postcard Moissant Airport 1960s.jpg|thumb|left|The [[New Orleans International Airport]] passenger terminal building in [[New Orleans]] (1960s).]]
Following the war, some of these military airfields added civil facilities for handling passenger traffic. One of the earliest such fields was [[Paris – Le Bourget Airport]] at [[Le Bourget]], near Paris. The first airport to operate scheduled international commercial services was [[Hounslow Heath Aerodrome]] in August 1919, but it was closed and supplanted by [[Croydon Airport]] in March 1920.<ref>Bluffield (2009)</ref>[[File:Mariehamn Airport.jpg|thumb|The [[Mariehamn Airport]] in [[Jomala]], [[Åland]] (2009).]]The malicious use of UAVs has led to the deployment of [[Anti-aircraft warfare#Anti-UAV defences|counter unmanned air system]] (C-UAS) technologies such as the Aaronia [[AARTOS]] which have been installed on major international airports.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/uv-online/heathrows-picks-new-c-uas-combat-drone-disruption/ |title=Heathrow picks C-UAS to combat drone disruption |access-date=March 13, 2019 |archive-date=November 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109111036/https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/uv-online/heathrows-picks-new-c-uas-combat-drone-disruption/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unmannedairspace.info/counter-uas-systems-and-policies/muscat-international-airport-install-usd10-million-aaronia-counter-uas-system/ |title=Muscat International Airport to install USD10&nbsp;million Aaronia counter-UAS system |date=January 21, 2019 |access-date=January 21, 2019 |archive-date=November 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109111704/https://www.unmannedairspace.info/counter-uas-systems-and-policies/muscat-international-airport-install-usd10-million-aaronia-counter-uas-system/ |url-status=live }}</ref>