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Kunovice Airport

airport in Kunovice, Czech Republic

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3490779 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kunovice Airport (Czech: Letiště Kunovice) (IATA: UHE, ICAO: LKKU) is an airport in Kunovice, about 5 km (3 mi) from Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic. It is a non-public international airport and has no scheduled flights.

The airport is associated with the local aerospace industry. Aircraft Industries operates from Kunovice Airport, and manufacturers in Kunovice include Czech Sport Aircraft and Evektor-Aerotechnik.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kunovice Airport” as airport in Kunovice, Czech Republic. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kunovice, Airport and airport.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kunovice, Airport and airport providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Kunovice Airport”, the useful work is to connect “airport in Kunovice, Czech Republic” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3490779. Authority coordinates are 49.029, 17.440. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kunovice Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kunovice Airport primary sources, Kunovice Airport archive and Kunovice research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kunovice Airport”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kunovice Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.