Aeroklub Spišská Nová Ves

About the club

The region we see from above, the people, the equipment and the history of an airfield where people have flown since 1914.

The region from above

Three places you will see shortly after take-off.

40 KM FROM THE AIRFIELD

High Tatras

From the air, Slovakia’s highest peaks stretch out across the whole horizon.

15 KM FROM THE AIRFIELD

Spiš Castle

One of the largest castle complexes in Central Europe, a few minutes’ flight from the runway.

Forested hills and a reservoir beneath the wing of a glider

5 KM FROM THE AIRFIELD

Slovak Paradise

The Tomášovský výhľad viewpoint and the Hornád gorge, right behind the airfield.

Transmitter mast on a snow-covered ridge beneath an aircraft wing, with the High Tatras in the background

Spišská Nová Ves from the air, with the airfield in the background

View from the cockpit of the L-13 SE Vivat motor glider OM-6103 above a temperature inversion

Snow-covered mountain ridge seen from an aircraft

Life at the club

Flying is only part of it. The rest is the airfield, the aircraft and the people around them.

Two club members shaking hands beside a VSO-10 Gradient glider, with the High Tatras in the background

Crew in the cockpit of a Blaník glider before launch

Rolling the airfield’s grass runway, with the High Tatras on the horizon

Nursery school children visiting the airfield, standing beside a red aircraft

Red aircraft OM-W070 just above the grass during a precision landing

Aircraft on the airfield apron, with Spišská Nová Ves in the background

Pilot beside a WT9 Dynamic on the airfield

Group of eight club members in front of aircraft on the airfield

Row of light aircraft on the airfield grass during a fly-in

Club member leaning on the wing of a Blaník glider

Timekeeper with the flight log and a radio at a table on the airfield

Group photograph of club members wearing medals in front of the hangar

Two club members relaxing in the grass, with Zlín Z-226 OM-LLY behind them

Club member launching a model glider at a competition on the airfield

We look after our aircraft ourselves

Maintenance, refuelling and rigging the gliders are as much a part of club life as flying.

Two mechanics working on the uncowled engine of a Zlín aircraft

Fitting the tailplane to a VSO-10 glider

Refuelling an aircraft in front of the hangar

Pre-flight inspection of the propeller on a red aircraft

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Flying here since 1914

A military airfield and airline stop that became a home for sport flying.

Historic black-and-white photograph of a building bearing the sign Aeroklub Zväzarm Spišská Nová Ves

Old photograph of a red and white airfield vehicle carrying a winch

1914Andrej Kvas demonstrates his KVAS 5 aircraft at the flying days.
1935–36A military airfield with air force barracks is built.
1938Air route Prague – Bratislava – Spišská Nová Ves – Slatinské Doly.
1939On 24 March the Hungarian air force bombs the airfield during the Little War.
1954The Zväzarm flying club is founded: powered flying, gliding and parachuting.

INTERREG V-A POLAND – SLOVAKIA CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION PROGRAMME 2014 – 2020

Pod spoločným nebom (Under a Common Sky)

A joint cross-border cycle of vocational and professional training in aviation. Together with the Polish gliding school Żar we developed joint training programmes and parallel training on gliders and powered aircraft on both sides of the border.

More about the project

Implementation of a joint cross-border cycle of vocational and professional training in aviation

Lead partner:: Górska Szkoła Szybowcowa Aeroklubu Polskiego „Żar” im. Adama Dziurzyńskiego, www.glidezar.com
Project partner:: Aeroklub Spišská Nová Ves, www.lzsv.sk

Project description

The project set out to create joint cross-border training programmes to meet the needs of the Polish-Slovak labour market. They were drawn up following a detailed analysis of the existing training programmes in both countries and on the basis of working meetings between the partners. The analysis and the meetings resulted in a set of joint Polish-Slovak recommendations for teaching.

Teaching ran in parallel at both partners: gliding theory, practical training on gliders (basic course, training towards a licence) and practical training on powered aircraft (basic course, training towards a licence).

The project concluded with a conference that summarised the results achieved and led to recommendations for creating updated training programmes. These were distributed to institutions in the region (flying clubs, businesses and associations in both Poland and Slovakia). The conference also presented the project’s achievements, the training cycle and its results. It was attended by 60 people, 30 from the Polish side and 30 from the Slovak side.

Project objectives

The main objective was to introduce a joint cross-border cycle of vocational and professional training in the aviation industry. It was delivered through three specific objectives:

Developing joint cross-border training programmes
Promoting aviation as a route to a professional career
Improving participants’ skills

PUBLIC NOTICE

The airfield is a restricted area

Please respect the signs and do not enter the airfield’s designated security areas. Unauthorised entry puts your own health and safety at risk, as well as that of flight crews, and constitutes the criminal offence of public endangerment.

Please act responsibly. Thank you.

Aerial map of Spišská Nová Ves airfield with the designated security area marked in red and the words No entry

Aeroklub o.z.

Company and bank details

Club details for contracts, invoices and payments.

Name: Aeroklub o.z.
Registered office: Letecká 37, P.O.BOX 44, 052 01 Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia
Company ID (IČO): 319 46 704
Tax ID (DIČ): 2020719866
VAT ID: SK2020719866
Bank: Slovenská sporiteľňa, a.s., Spišská Nová Ves
Account number: 101381762/0900
IBAN: SK12 0900 0000 0001 0138 1762
SWIFT: GIBASKBX