Air Base Finsterwalde-Schacksdorf

Air Base Finsterwalde-Schacksdorf (german: flugplatz Finsterwalde-Schacksdorf,) is an airfield 3kilometers (2nm) southeast of Finsterwalde in Brandenburg, Germany.
The airfield was built in the 1930s during Nazi-rule.
After World War II the airfield was used by the Soviet Forces' 559th Fighterbomber Regiment.
The unit flew MiG-23 and MiG-27 fighters/fighterbombers until the airbase closed.
The Russians left in 1992, after which the airfield closed.
It reopened in 1999 as a special airfield for civilian traffic with a very much shortened runway (shrunk from 2,700meter to just 1,200meter by painting new lines on the old, still fully intact runway).