Zeljava-Sada(2005->)

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This video has been recorded 5 months after the destrucion of airfield Zeljava, in october, 1992 by the exYugoslav People's Army.
Reconnaissance mission of the Bosnian Army with main objective to evaluate the scale of the airfield destruction.
During this mission Bosnian soldiers walk through the forest on slope of mountain Pljesevica and they discover few ventilaton shafts.
Thorugh them underground facility "Klek" was supplyed by fresh air.
Some of those shafts was under mine and also surrounding of the patrol path.
The greatest visible damage on these recording is one the entrance/exit 3 from Croatian side (2nd from Bosnian side), and thet damaga took place after detonation of the tank trailer with ~30.000 liters of the fuel.

1993/4 (?)

Bosnian army at the position of the GCA radar and runway 1 (32R)

part 1	part 2
part 3	------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bosnian army at position of the GCA radar 1993/4(?). View Larger Map

2003

Croatian television (HTV) reportage about Zeljava airport

Croatian television (HTV) reportage about Zeljava airport (construction and present state).

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2005

LYBI-forum team 1st time on the Zeljava airfield

Recorded in the summer of 2005.year.

On this video you can see airfield facility (mostly from outside), runways and aprons from direction of village Zeljava which is on Croatian side of border.

Most part of airfield is on Croatian side, but whole area is some kind of cross-border zone (between Croatia and Bosnia) with width about 200-300 meters.
Because of that meeting with (Croatian/Bosnian) border patrols is not something unexpected.

We're enter (very partialy) in enterance 1 and 2, but only after about 50 meters there is incredible dark and every walk withot appropriate illumination is impossible.
One important detail is that camera eye on this video don't show real nature of that dark.
From buildings outside stays mainly nothing, and all is overgrown with vegetation.

Beside of all that in tunnels is very cold (in summer time) and warmer cloths is neccesary.
Fact that place is, duobtless, a mine suspected area is also important for safety issues.
There is also PCB problem about who you can read here.

On the exit from 2nd tunnel we're found shreded pilot suite, and there is numerous signs of "vultures" who had been steeling (thorugh time) remains of the equipment and cooper electric conduits which they solded for money like an scrap-iron.

Here is more about the mine fields situation in Croatia.

2006

Aeroclub Bihac fly above Zeljava

Lower picture shows external disposition of the objects in the airfield area


Photos has been made by members of the aeroclub Bihac in year 2006. source link: http://community.webshots.com/user/blanikl13.

Pictures below clearly shows damaged runways.Airfield was destroyed by YPA on 16.may.1992.


Junction-runways 2 and 3	Junction-runways 2 and 5	Low approach for runway 2	Runway 1 with apron 2	Runway 1 with apron 2


Runway 2	Runways 1 and 2	Runways 2, 5 and 3	Approach for runway 1	Runways 1 and 3 with apron 2


Junction-runways 2 and 5	Runway 1 with apron 2	Junction-runways 2 and 3, + apron 1

Excellent photo display who shows present state of the access roads to airfiled and the runways 5 and 2....all on the Bosnian side of border.(recoreded in 2006)
(thanks to Damir S.

from Bihac on this)

1)Acces road to airfield from the direction of Bihac and Vedro Polje

2)Entrance 4 with surrounding access roads and the begining of the runway 5

3)Runway 5

4)Junction of the runways 5 i 2

5)Runway 2 (14R, 32L)

6)Runway 5, return toward the entrance 4

7)Departure to the Vedro Polje and Bihac

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1)Acces road to airfield from the direction of Bihac and Vedro Polje

2)Entrance 4 with surrounding access roads and the begining of the runway 5

3)Runway 5

4)Junction of the runways 5 i 2

5)Runway 2 (14R, 32L)

6)Runway 5, return toward the entrance 4

7)Departure to the Vedro Polje and Bihac

LYBI-forum at the Gola Pljesevica peek (Mt.Gola)

Recorded in the october of 2006.year.

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Here you can see an underground maze of corridors and rooms with "Stationary communication node".
This underground space has, at least, 3 known entrance and our team step in through that one who is placed on the access road and tuned to Bosnian side.
Also you can see residance traces of Canadian soldiers in a form of wall painting insignia.
They were placed here 1998. , and have gone by the end of 2004.
Few more videos from the mt. Gola you can see here.
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2007

LYBI-forum team in the tunnels of the underground faciliy KLEK

Recorded in the january of 2007.year.

There's one wrong information about name of the base in the village Zeljava.
In video is written that name is "27th.july", but it isn't.

On this video you can see our first visit to the underground tunnels of the "Klek" facility inside the mountain Pljesevica.
On that moment we don't know almost nothing about the state of the tunnels and even can we walk through them.
But luckily we were walked trough almost all "Klek" facility.
Very good shape of the tunnels surprised us.
Only negative point is that the local "vultures" steel everything what they can.

Paraglider flight above Zeljava airfield with spectacular photos

Spectacular panoramic picture(s) of the ex-military base and AF Zeljava taken by this free flyer fan from Karlovac ...recoderd in june 2007.
Source link--->www.motori.hr

LYBI-forum team is drive with car over the runways

Recorded at 15.07.2007...it was hot like in hell!
Drive through the runways and aprons of the airefield Zeljava.

How today (2006) looks runways 5 i 2, which can't be seen on this video, you can see on the photograps by Damir S. from the city of Bihac-->here

Few more pictures:

LYBI-forum team drive cars over Zeljava runways again

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Recorded in october 2007 .
This video show drive from ex-army base in the village Zeljava to the runways, aprons and whole airfield Zeljava facility.
That road is 3 kilometer long.
It's also possible to see 1st, 2nd and 3rd enatrance to the underground facility "Klek" and runway-triangle drive which is formed from runways 3, 1 and 4.
That triangle look like this on the real aerial photo:
Attention!!-during year 2008. border line is marked with proper signs and line is approximately presented with the red line!!

2008

BUNKERMAN on the Zeljava airfield

Reportage of the NUF-Bunkerman

from february 2008.year.

LYBI-forum team in building LINK

Airfield Zeljava, building LINK. (13.04.2008.)

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LYBI-forum team with LupusREBEL guidance climb up at the control tower and guard house with KK9 ventilation shaft...in KK9 we were down the camera

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Airfield Zeljava, control tower. (13.04.2008.)

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KK9-look in the abyss (09.05.2008.)	Airfield Zeljava, guard house and ventilation shaft KK9 + lowerig the camera in the KK9. (09.05. i 06.09.2008.) View Larger Map
KK9-camera descent, part1(09.06.2008.) Lowering the video camera in the ventilation shaft KK9	KK9-camera descent, part2(09.06.2008.) ....assumed depth is above 90-200 meters, correct information is unavailable for now.
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LYBI-forum team pilot perform 1st flight (known to us) on the main runway 14L after 16 years

Return to flight on Zeljava after 16 years. (right click, then "Save Link As") 224MB!	Airfiled Zeljava, runway 14L (06.09.2008.) View Larger Map

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