Ebern-Sendelbach Airport
| Ebern-Sendelbach Airport | |||
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| ICAO code | EDQR | ||
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| Height above MSL | 252 m (827 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 7 km south of Ebern | ||
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| opening | 1967 | ||
| operator | Aviation Club Ebern | ||
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| 14/32 | 450 m × 30 m grass runway | ||
The airfield boars-Sendelbach is the Sonderlandeplatz the Lower Franconian town of boars . It is run by the Flugsportclub Ebern e. V. operated.
geography
The airfield is located seven kilometers south of the historic town center of Ebern in the Gräuselsee parcel at an altitude of 250 m above sea level. NHN . The southern part of the runway is built over to the area of the Upper Franconian community of Reckendorf, two kilometers to the south . It extends along the valley of the Baunach, which flows directly to the east .
In terms of natural space, the terrain rises west to the Haßberge and east to the Franconian Jura .
history
The Aviation Sports Club Ebern was founded in 1961 and took up aviation in 1962, initially on the airfields of neighboring clubs, until a suitable location for its own airfield was found in 1967. A first hangar was built and a tow plane was procured, but regular flight operations there had not yet been approved because the site was too close to the inner-German border . Only in the early 1970s did the development of the site gradually gain momentum and, after the club had acquired a ground radio station, fire extinguishing and rescue equipment, approval as a special airfield was granted in 1973 . The clubhouse was added in 1976, later the flight control center and in 1999 the flyer bar.
Airfield and equipment
The airfield is approved for aircraft of all types up to 2000 kg maximum take-off weight (MTOW).
There are several farm buildings , a tower (frequency 118.005 MHz), hangars and a clubhouse. There is a tow plane, but there is no refueling facility.
Incidents
- On June 14, 1980, two club members had a fatal accident in a plane.
- On March 30, 2014, a missed gyroplane type Trixy Aviation G 4-2 R at startup at high speed pivoting on runway 14, crashed into the demand for construction and slammed into the opposite embankment. The pilot was seriously injured and the aircraft destroyed.
- On March 25, 2015, a two-person gyroplane of the MTOsport type crash-landed and touched a tree shortly after take-off. The pilot was uninjured, the passenger was injured and taken to a hospital. The technical relief organization recovered the wreck.
- On February 19, 2016, a Hughes Aircraft 269 C helicopter , built in 2000, crashed during a test flight in the absence of the flight control at the airfield. The aircraft was completely destroyed and the two pilots were slightly injured.
traffic
Federal highway 279 runs immediately to the west of the airfield . The public transport do not operate the airfield directly, the nearest boarding way to the railway Breitengüßbach-Maroldsweisach that the regional transport system Nuremberg followed is to Reckendorf.
Web links
- Ebern-Sendelbach Airport
- EDQR at oberpfalz-luftbild.de
- Airfield information for pilots
- YouTube video, landing and take-off on EDQR (4:49)
- Aviation map for Ebern-Sendelbach airfield on SkyVector.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ EDQR at BayernAtlas
- ↑ a b c d Chronicle of the Aviation Club Ebern
- ↑ BFU investigation report BFU 3X011-14 from July 2014 (.pdf)
- ↑ Air accident in 2015
- ↑ BFU investigation report BFU 16-0162-3X from April 2016 (.pdf)
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