TimiÃÂoara Utility Airport is an airport located in the northwestern part of TimiÃÂoara. It is also known as Cioca Airfield or, sometimes, TimiÃÂoara West Airfield. It is used by owners of small- and medium-sized aircraft for recreational flying, by air taxi companies, as well as by utility aircraft spraying fields with fertilizers and insecticides. Cioca Airfield was for a short time the main airport of TimiÃÂoara.
The airfield was built in the interwar period, in 1936, as the civil airport of TimiÃÂoara. The first flights from here, on the BucharestâÂÂTimiÃÂoaraâÂÂArad route, began in 1937 and were operated by LARES. During World War II, between 1941âÂÂ1944, the Cioca Airfield was used by the German aviation Luftwaffe, during the communism by Aviasan, and today is the property of the TimiàCounty Council.