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[edit] First Airport?

"If you consider the Zeppelin as an aircraft, this airport is the first in the world."

I removed this statement as there was no supporting argument for this statement. While it would be cool if that was fact, I was not able to find any supporting arguments. All I found were are arguments against this statement:

• The German Wikipedia entry does not have the above argument. Instead it simply states that in 1913 the area of the airport was designated for training of Zeppelin staff and that in 1915 the first building to house Zeppelins was build.
• The airport entry in Wikipedia states that, although disputed, it is generally agreed that College Park Airport in Maryland, US, established in 1909 is the world's oldest continually operating airfield.
• According to the list of airports in the German Wikipedia entry the Hamburg airport was established in 1911.
• Lufthansa started its first scheduled flights on April 6^th, 1926 that connected the airports in Berlin, Halle, Erfurt, Stuttgart, and Zurich (from history of Lufthansa in the German Wikipedia). Lufthansa did not serve Friedrichshafen until 1929 (from the German Wikipedia entry). Therefore it can not be the first passenger airport either.

-- Feral Duck 13:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)