Karup Airport
| Karup Lufthavn Flyvestation Karup |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EKKA |
| IATA code | KRP |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 52 m (171 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 20 km northeast of Herning |
| Street | NO Hansens Vej 4, DK-7470 Karup |
| Basic data | |
| opening | August 9, 1940 |
| operator | Karup Lufthavn amba Danish Air Force |
| surface | 2900 ha |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 114,039 (2019) |
| Air freight | 3 t (2019) |
| Flight movements |
5,663 (2019) |
| Runways | |
| 09L / 27R | 2992 m × 23 m asphalt |
| 09/27 | 2789 m × 60 m grass / earth |
| 09RL / 27L | 2928 m × 46 m concrete / asphalt |
| 04/22 | 2936 m × 15 m concrete / asphalt |
| 14/32 | 782 m × 18 m concrete / asphalt |
The Karup Airport ( Dan. Karup Lufthavn ) is a regional airport as a civil mitgenutzter military airfield of the Royal Danish Air Force , which the device under the name Flyvestation Karup u. a. as a base for their helicopter wing , a helicopter squadron. The largest military airfield in Northern Europe, on which there are more than 1000 buildings, is located 25 km southwest of Viborg in the municipality of the same name on Primærrute 12 in the southwest of the municipality of Karup .
history
The facility was created after the occupation of Denmark by the German Wehrmacht in April 1940 and was put into operation in the summer of that year. After its completion , the German air force used the Grove port of operations , as it was originally called, as a base for interceptors against Allied bombers. At the beginning of the Battle of Britain on August 8, 1940, Group II of Kampfgeschwader 30 was based here . This intervened as part of the X. Air Corps of Air Fleet 5 in the fighting on the British Isles. The insert port Grove was during the war to the air base expanded and was with Aalborg-West one of the most fortified airfields of the Luftwaffe in occupied Western Europe. Grove was also one of the few bases from which He 219 night fighters operated.
In 1942, however, Grove was initially the location of Fighter Pilot School 3 for a few months. Between November 1942 and the beginning of January 1944, Grove was then, apart from a squadron in Aalborg-West , home of the IV Group of Night Fighter Wing 3 (IV./NJG 3), which was initially equipped with Bf 110 and Do 217 . The latter was replaced by the Ju 88C in the summer of 1943 . One season, however, remained in Grove until late summer 1944. In addition, between April and July 1944, the I. Group of Kampfgeschwader 26 (I./KG 26) flew the He 111H and Ju 88C.
Between June 1944 and the beginning of May 1945, the school or later staff unit of the same squadron was based in Grove and in the summer of 1944 the school unit of Night Fighter Wing 1 (NJG 1) set up in July 1944 was located here for a short time . The second group of NJG 3 equipped with Ju 88G came to the field in early September 1944 and was replaced by the first group in late autumn. She stayed here until the end of the war, but from the end of March 1945 consisted of only one squadron.
After 1947, the Danish armed forces expanded Flyvestation Karup into a base for aircraft, helicopters and missiles, as well as operational support areas.
In 1949 the 3rd Flotilla of the Danish naval aviation with Meteor F4 / T7 was set up in Karup . Two years later, the flotilla was transferred to the new Air Force as the 723rd Squadron, which activated a second Meteor Squadron in the same year with the 724th. Both seasons were relocated to Aalborg (West) the following year. At the end of 1952 another squadron, the 727th Squadron, was set up. This was to remain stationed here until 1974 and first flew the F-84E / G until 1959 and then the F-100D . In addition to the single-seaters, some F / TF-100F trainers were also used. Between 1959 and 1961 there was also the 730th squadron, which the F-84G continued to fly in Karup for two years. Another squadron, the 729th Squadrille , flew the RF-84F reconnaissance aircraft until 1971.
The NATO regional command Allied Command Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) was set up in Karup in 1962 and was another user of the extensive military base until 2002.
At the instigation of local politicians, civil joint use began on November 1, 1965, initially in buildings rented by the military and from 1968 in a separate terminal. The first flight destination served by Karup Lufthavn with De Havilland Heron was Copenhagen. In addition to the SAS , Cimber Sterling was an important airline in Karup.
Another jet squadron of the Air Force in Karup was the 725th Squadron, which used the F / TF-35XD Draken between 1970 and December 1991 . In May 1971 also began the conversion of the reconnaissance squadron, which flew the Draken in the three versions F / RF / TF-35XD until December 1993.
A new civil terminal, called "Glasshouse" was opened in 1991. The number of passengers rose slowly but steadily to over 300,000 annually until 2010, almost exclusively on domestic Danish flights.
In 2003 the Flyvevåbnet took over the Hughes 500M and Fennec of Army Aviation as the 724th Squadron and stationed them in Karup. The 722nd Squadron S-61A Sea King and the Lynx Mk.90B marine helicopters were added in 2004. The Hughes 500M was retired a year later and the first Merlin to replace the Sea King arrived in 2006. The naval helicopters were reassigned to the air force from 2011 and from then on formed the 723rd squadron. This received the first three of nine MH-60Rs ordered in May 2016 .
S-61A Sea King, 2004
Fennec, 2005
Sea Lynx Mk.90B, 2004
Military use
The Flyvestation Karup is currently (2016) used as follows:
- Helicopter Wing Karup with three squadrons, the Eskadrille 722 (AW101, since 2006), 723 (Westland Lynx Mk.90B since 2004 and Sikorsky MH-60R since 2016, on-board helicopter) and 724 (Fennec, since 2003)
- Flyveskolen (flight school, with T-17)
In addition, the military base is home to a number of other non-flying units, including higher command authorities of the Danish land and air forces, and the cross-armed forces headquarters established in 2015 are also located here.
Civil use
From Karup, machines leave for Copenhagen ( Danish Air Transport ).
See also
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Information on a website of the Danish Agency for Culture in English
- Homepage of the military airfield (Danish)
- Homepage of the regional airport (English)
- Information about the wartime (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Trafik-, Bygge and Boligstyrelsen. Stat.Trafikstyrelsen.dk, accessed June 7, 2020 (Danish).
- ↑ First MH-60R helicopters delivered to Denmark, Janes, May 12, 2016 ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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