Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Airlines of Bulgaria, Airports in Bulgaria, Aviation Accidents and Incidents in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Aviators, Sofia Airport, Wizz Air, List of Airports in Bulgaria, Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Bulgaria Air, Dobroslavtsi Air Base, Burgas Airport, Varna Airport, El Al Flight 402, Plovdiv Airport, Bh Air, Hemus Air, Bulgarian Air Charter, Dimitar Spisarevski, Air Via, Gorna Oryahovitsa Airport, Bezmer Air Base, Ruse Airport, List of Airlines of Bulgaria, Kalvacha Airport, Stara Zagora Airport, Wizz Air Bulgaria, Viaggio Air, 1984 Balkan Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 Crash, 1978 Balkan Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 Crash, Balchik Airfield, List of the Busiest Airports in Bulgaria, Ravnets Air Base, Balkan Hemus Group Ag, Uzundzhovo Air Base, Targovishte Airport, Gabrovnitsa Air Base, Cargoair, Rayna Kasabova, Heli Air, Easyfly Bulgaria. Excerpt: Sofia Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The airport was initially built in the late 1930s on a site 6.3 km (3.9 mi) (7.5 km (4.7 mi) by road then; later 9 km (5.6 mi) by road and today 10.2 km (6.3 mi) and up to 11.4 km (7.1 mi)) distant from the geographical centre of Sofia as a replacement of that city's small civil airport at Bozhurishte. Sofia then had under 250,000 inhabitants. The airport continues to serve the same city, which in 2006 passed the two million inhabitant mark. During the Second World War, the facilities were used by the military. Mail, perishable freight and passenger operations began in 1947 from buildings on the north side of the airport. The passenger terminal (now Terminal 1) on the south side of the airport was completed during the Second World War in the manner of a then-modern European railway terminus to designs by the architect Ivan Marangozov. It opened after several years of d... More: