# Novi Sad Airfield

Also called: Aerodrom Jugovićevo, Újvidéki repülőtér, Flugfeld Neusatz.

Novi Sad's military airfield lay on the western edge of the city, on the flat ground at Sajlovo that later took the name Jugovićevo. The city ceded the land in 1912 at the request of the Austro-Hungarian general staff and the field opened with a flying meeting in May 1913, at first no more than grass strips and eleven wooden hangars, with brick hangars, workshops and barracks following in 1916. A Serbian squadron flew in from France in November 1918, and for the next two decades the field was the centre of military aviation in the new Yugoslav state, home of the first pilot school, of training schools for reserve officers, observers and mechanics, and of the air force command until it moved to Zemun in 1936; it was renamed in 1927 after the aviation officer Jovan Jugović. German bombers struck it in April 1941, the occupiers laid an 800 metre concrete runway, and after the war the field lost its purpose as the city grew over it, leaving Jugovićevo as the name of a residential district.

## Pictures (20)

- [A Woman in White Beside Archduke Joseph at the Hangars, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/9dd56cb33458/index.md), 12 May 1913
- [Archduke Joseph August at the Novi Sad Aviation Days](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/320b82ce6722/index.md), 12 May 1913
- [Archduke Joseph reads a document with a member of his entourage](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/bff4f24e3c5b/index.md), 12 May 1913
- [Archduke Joseph talks with an aviator beside a biplane](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/2e1edd046025/index.md), 12 May 1913
- [Béla Matkovits and Archduke Joseph beside an aircraft](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/79472b258fb9/index.md), 12 May 1913
- [Béla Matkovits, Archduke Joseph and Officers in a Field](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/4694a254d1c8/index.md), 12 May 1913
- [Military air show guests](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/6c3e8d4187fa/index.md), 1913
- [A Biplane in Its Hangar, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/881e95a53215/index.md), 1917
- [An Aeroplane Inside an Open Hangar](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/d058d28d0035/index.md), 1917
- [Airport hangars](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/de74317a88e6/index.md), 1919
- [Novi Sad airfield](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/873e3ee03970/index.md), 1923
- [A welcome arch of flags and greenery](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/8f9e6d3af6ce/index.md), around 1930
- [Royal Yugoslav Air Force Escadrille](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/d753ced4cb84/index.md), 1933
- [A Soldier Beside the Wreckage of a Breguet 19, Novi Sad Airport, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/dca5d6e8c766/index.md), 1941
- [Aircraft Wreckage in the Bombed Hangar](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/a05e298f8d1c/index.md), 1941
- [Collapsed airfield building after the bombing of Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/277b346487a7/index.md), 1941
- [Ruined hangar with a collapsed canopy at the bombed Novi Sad airfield](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f83ec271154d/index.md), 1941
- [Soldiers With a Damaged Breguet 19 at Novi Sad Airport, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/4436be65f2f5/index.md), 1941
- [Wrecked biplanes inside a bombed hangar at the Novi Sad airfield](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/4d1197ced87b/index.md), 1941
- [Students of the Novi Sad Aircraft Mechanic School, 1943](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/493412c98d50/index.md), 1943

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