Bad Kissingen airfield

Bad Kissingen airfield
Characteristics
ICAO code	EDFK
Coordinates	50 ° 12 ′ 33 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 11"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 33 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 11"  E
Height above MSL	199 m (653  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	1 km north of Bad Kissingen
Street
Basic data
opening	1923
operator	Segelfluggemeinschaft Bad Kissingen eV
Start-and runway
17/35	805 m × 30 m grass runway 620/805 m

Tower EDFK from the east (2017)

Airfield area, view from the south (2009)

Looking North (2009)

The airport Bad Kissingen is the Sonderlandeplatz the Lower Franconian town of Bad Kissingen . It is owned by the Segelfluggemeinschaft eV Bad Kissingen and is operated by the Segelfluggemeinschaft Bad Kissingen e. V. operated.

geography

The airfield is located one kilometer north of the historic town center of Bad Kissingen in the Obere Au parcel at an altitude of 199  m above sea level. NN . Immediately to the south is the Staffelsberg (386 m) and the Franconian Saale runs to the east .

In terms of nature, the Spessart extends to the west , the Rhön to the north , the Haßberge to the east and the Maindreieck to the south .

history

Aviation was already in operation in Bad Kissingen from 1923. The first airfield was created as a military airfield three kilometers east of the city on Linnenberg and was opened in 1936. The 500-meter-kilometer-long grass runway running in an east-west direction was additionally secured with steel sand ladders .

After the occupation by Allied troops in April 1945 , the area there became the US Army AAF ( ICAO : EDEG) airfield and the Germans were initially prohibited from flying. In 1948 the sand ladders were removed and taken to Berlin, where they were used to temporarily secure Berlin-Tegel Airport . The Army then paved the Kissinger runway around 1950. The area of ​​the air base was abandoned in 1990 and returned to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1993. Today there are no more aircraft movements and it is used by the Federal Police as a training ground.

After the flight ban was lifted after the war, the Verein Segelfluggemeinschaft Bad Kissingen e. V. re-established. In the search for a location for a new airfield, the Obere Saaleau was found as a suitable plot of land next to the equestrian tournament area from the 1920s. The runway was laid out immediately to the east of the tournament site, in the direction of the Saale. The already existing grandstand of the tournament area was extended by a tower and around 1963 two hangars were built next to it . Since then, the facility has been a combined airfield and tournament field. However, the airfield repeatedly suffers from floods in the Saale.

Until 2017, the airfield was used regularly by the Bavarian air ambulance team and for reconnaissance flights on the risk of forest fires over the Bavarian state forests and the flood situation.

Airfield and equipment

The airfield is approved for aircraft up to 3000 kg MTOW and has no regulated operating times. The airport operator is the Segelfluggemeinschaft Bad Kissingen, the operator is the Segelfluggemeinschaft Bad Kissingen e. V.

There are several farm buildings , a tower (frequency 124.755 MHz), two hangars and a bistro. There is a winch launch facility, but no refueling facility for stopovers.

Incidents

• In May 2008, a gust of wind lifted a powered glider that was on the ground, causing it to crash with another parked aircraft.
• On August 14, 2016, a motor kite crashed while approaching and caught fire. Two people were seriously injured.
• On October 5, 2018, an HK36 R Super Dimona motor glider had an accident while approaching a nearby forest and immediately caught fire. Axel Homburg , the 82-year-old pilot, was killed here.

traffic

A municipal road opens up the airfield via the B 286 / St 2291 to the federal motorway 7 , which runs ten kilometers to the west . The public transport does not serve the airport directly, there is a city bus that goes to Bad Kissingen train station .

Web links

Commons : Flugplatz Bad Kissingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bad Kissingen airfield
• Bad Kissingen airfield on Flickr
• Airfield information for pilots
• Aviation map for Bad Kissingen airfield on SkyVector.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EDFK at BayernAtlas
2. ↑ Bad Kissingen Airport 1945 on historical measuring table sheet
3. ↑ EDEG aerial photo from the east (2006)
4. ↑ ^{a b} press report ( memento of December 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at BR 24 from 2017
5. ↑ Mainpost press report from May 31, 2008
6. ↑ Press report in Franconia from August 2016
7. ^ Press report Nordbayern.de from March 11, 2019
8. ^ Press report Nordbayern.de from October 5, 2018
9. ↑ Police report PP Lower Franconia from October 5, 2018