The first passenger aircraft to land in Lesce was a Yugoslav Air Transport (JAT) DC-3 YU-
ABK. On June 17, 1955, it arrived from Skopje and landed in Lesce precisely at 7 p.m. With
this flight, Bled gained its first air connection with larger cities in the former country and
abroad. The first scheduled route was established: Skopje – Belgrade – Zagreb – Lesce, with
flights every Friday and returns on Saturdays. In 1956, JAT introduced two more regular
routes: Belgrade – Zagreb – Lesce with flights three times a week in both directions, and
Dubrovnik – Lesce – Dubrovnik once a week. These three airline routes operated until the
autumn of 1963, when the airport Brnik was opened.
Source:
Primožič, France. Aviaton in Gorenjska and the Alpine Aviation Center Lesce – Bled (Letalstvo
na Gorenjskem in Alpski letalski center Lesce-Bled). Lesce: Alpski letalski center, 2008
Geršič, Matjaž. Local Community of Lesce: In Space and Time (Krajevna skupnost Lesce: v
prostoru in času). Lesce: krajevna skupnost, 2021.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the first landing at Lesce-Bled Airport, a model of the DC-3
aircraft was created by Aleš Štular and exhibited by the Aeroclub ALC Lesce.
