Riding on the runway at Tempelhof Airport... now Berlin's largest public park

1984

Wiki: Tempelhof was designated as an airport by the Ministry of Transport on 8 October 1923. In anticipation of increasing air traffic, the Nazi government began a massive reconstruction in the mid-1930s. While it was occasionally cited as the world's oldest still operating commercial airport, the title was disputed by several other airports, and has in any case been moot since its closure. Tempelhof was one of Europe's three iconic pre-World-War-II airports and the main building was once among the top 20 largest buildings on earth; in contrast, it formerly had the world's smallest duty-free shop.  

Berlin Blockade. On 20 June 1948 Soviet authorities, claiming technical difficulties, halted all traffic by land and by water into or out of the western-controlled section of Berlin. The only remaining access routes into the city were three 25 mile-wide air corridors across the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany. Faced with the choice of abandoning the city or attempting to supply its inhabitants with the necessities of life by air, the Western Powers chose the latter course, and for the next eleven months sustained the city's 2½ million residents in one of the greatest feats in aviation history...

Tempelhof Airport closed all operations on 30 October 2008.