This is a list of former and current airports located in and around Berlin, the capital of Germany.

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;Current airports * Berlin Brandenburg Airport , Berlin's current sole

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, opened in 2020 after nine years of delay. It is located just across the Berlin-Brandenburg border in Schönefeld. ;Former airports * Berlin Schönefeld Airport , founded in 1934, the airport for

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

during the

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and closed in 2020, the old terminal and one of the runways became part of Berlin Brandenburg Airport. The former northern runway (shut down in 2007) crossed the city and state boundary, the rest of the airport (including the terminal building) was in Brandenburg. * Berlin Tegel Airport " Otto Lilienthal" , the former main airport of Berlin (and prior to that West Berlin). It was built during the Berlin Airlift in 1948, was a hub for Air Berlin until its collapse in 2017, and the airport closed in 2020. A heliport in the northern section is still in use. *

Berlin Tempelhof Airport Berlin Tempelhof Airport (german: Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof) was one of the first airports in Berlin, Germany. Situated in the south-central Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, the airport ceased operating in 2008 amid controversy, leav ...

, the iconic airport that opened in 1923 and closed in 2008. * RAF Gatow, the former Royal Air Force military airbase in the district of Gatow in south-western Berlin, closed in 1994. Today an Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow, Air Force Museum uses the site. * Johannisthal Air Field, Johannisthal Airfield, Germany's second airfield (opened in 1909), located 15 km southeast of Berlin, between Johannisthal (Berlin), Johannisthal and Adlershof ''de facto'' closed in 1952 officially closed 1995. * Staaken, Staaken Airfield, located at the most western edge half inside and outside the borough of Spandau, Berlin-Spandau, used for zeppelins and an early Deutsche Luft Hansa base, closed after the withdrawal of the Soviet air force and turned into a clinic.

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{{Reflist Airports in Berlin, Berlin-related lists, Airports Germany transport-related lists, Airports

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