Ankara Güvercinlik Army Air Base, is a military airport of the Turkish Army located in Güvercinlik of Etimesgut district, 10km west of Ankara in central Turkey.The air base hosts General Staff controlled units, General Command of Mapping's aviation unit, Army Aviation School, 1st Army Aviation Regiment and Ankara Gendarmerie Aviation Group. The airport is open to general aviation for civil domestic flights with permission.HistoryWith the foundation of the Turkish State Airlines Enterprise , the predecessor of the Turkish Airlines, in 1933, regular domestic passenger flights started the same year between Ankara and Istanbul via a stopover in Eskişehir. The airport in Güvercinlik became the first airport of Ankara.In 1935, a training and a maintenance service center were established by the Turkish Aeronautical Association at the airport. The center, called Türkkuşu, carried out revision services to the DHY in two hangars until its relocation to the nearby airport in Etimesgut in 1945.On February 13, 1947, the first international passenger flight of the DHY departed from the Güvercinlik Airport for Athens via Istanbul.