Warsaw Modlin Airport (IATA: WMI, ICAO: EPMO) is an international airport, formerly a military airbase. Originally opened by Germany in 1940 as an airbase after the invasion of Poland, after the German capitulation in 1945 the airport was transferred over to Soviet/Polish control. The airbase closed in 2000 as it was deemed unsafe for any further operations, before eventually being overhauled and repurposed as a commercial airport.[1] It is located 40 km (25 miles) north of Warsaw's city centre in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki and has a maximum capacity of approx.