Sedes Airport is a military airport 15 km east of

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

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, and 3 km northeast of

Makedonia International Airport Thessaloniki Airport , officially Thessaloniki Airport "Makedonia" ( el, Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Θεσσαλονίκης "Μακεδονία", Kratikós Aeroliménas Thessaloníkis "Makedonía") and formerly Mikra Airport, is ...

. Sedes airport started operating during the

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http://www.haf.gr/el/structure/units/day/units/sedes.asp and has since been exclusively used by the

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. Nowadays it also houses an

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, displaying a variety of old

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types.

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