Piikajärvi Airfield is an airfield in

Kokemäki Kokemäki (; ) is a town and municipality in the Satakunta Region of Finland. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Finland is constitutionally bi-lingual with a Swedish speakin ...

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, located by the Lake Piikajärvi ca. south west of the town. It is operated by Piikajärven ilmailuyhdistys (Piikajärvi Aviation Society). Piikaärvi Airfield was opened in 1943 as an alternate landing site for the

Finnish Air Force The Finnish Air Force (FAF or FiAF; ; ) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. Its peacetime tasks are airspace surveillance, identification flights, and production of readiness formations for wartime conditions. The Finnish Air ...

. Today it is mostly used by gliders.

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