Schwerin-Parchim Airport
| Schwerin-Parchim Airport | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDOP |
| IATA code | SZW |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 45 m (148 ft ) |
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| Basic data | |
| opening | 1992 |
| operator | Baltic Airport Mecklenburg GmbH |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 54 (2017) |
| Flight movements |
12,956 (2010) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 06/24 | 3000 m × 55 m concrete |
The Schwerin-Parchim Airport (also english Schwerin-Parchim International Airport ) is a regional airport in Parchim ( Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ). It is classified as a commercial airport .
history
Military airport
In 1934 the first flights were carried out with gliders . As part of the armament of the Wehrmacht , the airport was built and opened in August 1937. During the Second World War , airborne units and cargo gliders were stationed on the airport premises . From the end of 1942 various night fighter units were stationed here , mainly parts of the night fighter squadron 5 and the night fighter squadron 2 (from July 1943). Towards the end of the war, the Me 163 Komet rocket fighter, the Me 262 jet fighter and the He 111 bomber with the Hs 293 glide bomb were added. The US Air Force destroyed the airfield in April 1945.
The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Wehrmacht Air Force that were stationed here between 1939 and 1945.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 1939 | November 1939 | IV./KG zbV 1 (IV. Group of the Combat Squadron zbV 1) | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m |
| April 1940 | April 1940 | Parts of III./KG 30 | Junkers Ju 88A |
| September 1940 | March 1941 | II./KG zbV 1 | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m |
| June 1941 | June 1941 | Staff / KG zbV 1 | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m |
| March 1942 | May 1942 | Parts of III./KG 4 | Heinkel He 111H-6 , Heinkel He 111H-16 |
| June 1942 | September 1942 | Staff, I./LLG 2 | Heinkel He 111, Gotha Go 242 , DFS 230 |
| May 1942 | June 1942 | 1st to 4th and 6th Go season of Lw. | Gotha Go 242 |
| December 1942 | April 1944 | II./NJG 5 | Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4 |
| March 1944 | July 1944 | Test Command 25 | Messerschmitt Me 410A-1, Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2, Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-7 |
| July 1943 | October 1943 | I./NJG 2 | Junkers Ju 88C-6, Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4 |
| July 1943 | March 1944 | II./NJG 2 | Junkers Ju 88C-6 |
| December 1944 | February 1945 | II./KG 40 | |
| January 1945 | April 1945 | III./JG 7 | Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 |
| February 1945 | April 1945 | I./JG 1 | Heinkel He 162A |
| April 1945 | April 1945 | II./JG 7 | Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 |
Four years later, the Soviet 20th Guards Fighter Pilot Regiment was stationed at the rebuilt airport , which was later converted into the Fighter Bomb Pilot Regiment and replaced by the first helicopter units in 1970. The airfield was then used by the 172nd independent combat helicopter regiment from 1973 , which remained until 1992. In 1987 the 439th independent helicopter regiment was added.
Civil use
Three years after the fall of the wall , on November 13, 1992, the Russian armed forces were officially bid farewell to the airfield and from December 1, 1992 the airfield was used privately. For this purpose, the FPM Flughafen Parchim Mecklenburg GmbH was founded in the same year, under the management of the Parchim Economic Development Corporation. The airfield, whose technical facilities had been dismantled when the Russian armed forces withdrew, was initially only approved for general aviation under visual flight conditions during the day. In 1994 approach lights in landing direction 24, runway edge lights and temporary taxiway lights were installed. At the same time, a temporary two-year tower was erected, which ultimately remained in operation until 2015. In November 1994, the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania became the airport's main shareholder.
From 1995 onwards, the ailing runways that were not wide enough and not strong enough for modern commercial aircraft were torn down . Various ground-based navigation systems were built.
Civil flight operations according to instrument flight rules began on May 23, 1996 with an NDB-DME non-precision procedure ( non-directional radio beacon ), but initially limited to aircraft up to 5700 kg because there was only a single temporary taxiway and a non-loadable apron .
Nevertheless, from June 15, 1996, Lufthansa regularly used the airport for training flights with an Airbus A320 . Initially, the machines did not roll off the runway . A month later, a first Boeing 747 from Lufthansa was in training, and by the end of 1996 Schwerin-Parchim had been established as a training ground for practically all German airlines, thanks to almost no other traffic. At peak times, up to three airlines trained per day, sometimes two companies at the same time.
The airport has been classified in ICAO Category 4 E by the State Aviation Authority since 1996. The runways, which were completely rebuilt in the course of the year , were put into operation on October 30, 1996, at the same time as a newly installed CAT I instrument landing system for landing direction 24. A new apron with four parking positions has been in use since 1997; the lighting was completed.
The first commercial charter flight took off on April 25, 1997, when a BAe 146 from Hamburg Airlines flew from Schwerin-Parchim to Thessaloniki Airport . However, the airport did not yet have a permanent terminal; the passengers were handled in a tent .
Between 1991 and 1999, investments in the expansion of the airport amounted to 67.7 million DM. This included a grant of 60.7 million DM as part of the joint task to improve the regional economic structure . In addition, the state of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern from its state budget 667,000 DM to the operating company FPM.
New terminal building and tourist flights
A new airport terminal building was inaugurated on March 30, 1998. On the same day a flying Airbus A320 of Aero Lloyd to Antalya (Turkey). Official tourist air traffic began. Other regular flight destinations in 1998 were Monastir with Tunisair and Palma de Mallorca with Spanair . The flights were offered by Neckermann Reisen . In the following years, Palma was the only weekly destination due to weak demand. The route was served on Saturdays by Condor with a Lufthansa Airbus 319 and crew in wet lease , or by Air Europe with a Boeing 737 . Other charter flights, primarily operated by Air Berlin , occasionally took off to destinations in the Mediterranean region .
Since September 2000, the airport has also been used for international air freight traffic. It started with a series of flights by Russian companies with Ilyushin Il-76 from Shanghai , with a stopover in Irkutsk . Until 2006, cargo handling on trucks and customs control took place directly at the aircraft parking position on the apron .
In March 2005, the Parchim district became the new operator of the airport and replaced the British Plane Station Group that had previously worked here . Since then the airport Schwerin-Parchim has been called Baltic Airport Schwerin-Parchim .
In mid-2006, the district administrator of the Parchim district decided, on the recommendation of his advisory board and external consultants, to operate the airport in future as a pure cargo airport. Due to the location of the airport between the metropolises of Hamburg and Berlin (whose airports are each subject to night flight restrictions), the airport can handle air freight flights, especially during the night. At the end of November 2006, the German Armed Forces began using the airport for charter flights for relief supplies to Afghanistan . A cargo handling hall with around 3000 m² was also opened in 2006 and is operated by Cargologic GmbH, a subsidiary of Rhenus Logistics AG .
Since 1994, more than 36 million euros in state funding have flowed into Schwerin-Parchim Airport. In the 2005 season around 4600 passengers used the airport.
By the airline Hamburg International were charter flights to Gold beach ( Varna airport ) and sun beach ( Burgas Airport ) in Bulgaria conducted, the Spanish company Futura International Airways flew in summer 2005, twice each week Palma de Mallorca and Varna (Bulgaria).
Sale to LinkGlobal and bankruptcy
As of July 1, 2007, the airfield was owned by Beijing-based LinkGlobal Logistics Co. Ltd. for 30 million euros . by Jonathan Pang about. In addition, a guarantee of 15 million euros to secure airport operations until 2010 had to be proven. The company carried out freight transports between Schwerin-Parchim and Zhengzhou in China. The Parchim district counted on an additional 1,000 jobs through the hoped-for investments. Since mid-2007, u. a. Freight flights to China carried out. However, LinkGlobal repeatedly missed payment deadlines and did not carry out the necessary structural measures. In 2010 the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Ministry of the Interior examined an extensive debt waiver.
In May 2015 the temporary tower was replaced by a 36 meter high tower.
In 2017, the airport was primarily used by large German airlines for training flights (of around 2,300 take-offs, only 126 not in training) and recorded 54 passengers handled.
In December 2018, 20 of the remaining 25 employees at the airport were laid off. On May 2, 2019, the operating company presented at the District Court Schwerin a bankruptcy petition .
Incidents
On 27 March 1999, a fully staffed collided Boeing 737 of Air Berlin on the runway 24 with a deer. The pilot was able to abort the take-off safely and easily and roll back to the terminal. The passengers on the charter flight were flown to Crete with a replacement aircraft for safety reasons .
In July 1999 there was dangerously close to the amount of the community Spornitz between a Boeing 757 of the LTU , the schedule coming to a training flight without passengers from Dusseldorf anflog the runway 06, and coming from Hannover twin-engine business aircraft of type Cessna 425 . As a result of a chain of unfortunate circumstances, the latter flew to runway 06 by mistake and without radio connection to the tower, on a collision course, but according to visual flight rules , without a flight plan , and without being aware of the Boeing coming from the left in its right turn. The Boeing had already received clearance and was in landing configuration. The LTU pilots, for their part, also had no sight of the Cessna, and they mistakenly suspected traffic being controlled by the tower near the airport, which their TCAS device indicated to them. The Cessna was not equipped with TCAS. At that time, the airport tower had no radar image and visibility was restricted so that the unknown traffic was only visually discovered relatively late. The tower then instructed the Boeing 757 to immediately change course by 90 degrees and then climb. It was only when the airliner turned off that the two pilots of the Cessna noticed their mistake and contacted the tower by telephone (as they were using old, no longer valid documents). First the unauthorized Cessna landed and then the Boeing. An official investigation of the incident with the aid of the data from radar antennas further away revealed a minimal approximation of the two aircraft to 0.4 nautical miles (around 750 meters).
media
From 2008 to 2014 Filmbüro-Süd accompanied the investor Jonathan Pang. This resulted in the documentary Parchim International , shown for the first time in 2015 , which shows, among other things, the project to redesign the airport. The film has been shown in German cinemas since May 17, 2016 and was also shown at several documentary film festivals.
literature
- Eberhart Schultze: The Parchimer airfields from 1937-2000: Life with planes, airplanes and legends. Volume 1, 2., corr. Ed., Cw Verlagsgruppe, Schwerin 2001, ISBN 978-3-933781-18-5
- Eberhart Schultze: The Parchim airfields from 1937–2006 their past and present: with a territorial-historical consideration of the military processes in the last days of the Second World War and the first months of peace in the area between Ganzlin, Lübz, Parchim, Ludwigslust and Grabow. Volume 2, cw Verlagsgruppe, Schwerin 2006, ISBN 3-933781-53-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b crash landing for Parchimer airport. Ostseezeitung , December 18, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .
- ^ Air traffic in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. svz.de , June 14, 2013, accessed on March 19, 2015 .
- ^ Jürgen Zapf: Luftwaffe airfields 1934–1945 - and what was left of them . Volume 5: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. VDM, Zweibrücken 2006, ISBN 978-3-86619-011-5 , p. 222 ff .
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) pp 515-517 , accessed on 12 March 2020th
- ^ Stefan Büttner: Red places - Russian military airfields Germany 1945-1994 . AeroLit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , pp. 90 .
- ↑ State government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Answer to the small inquiry - Printed matter 3/822 - Parchim Airport , p. 3, accessed on October 6, 2019.
- ↑ Andreas Frost: Chinese buys Parchim Airport. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 25, 2007. Retrieved June 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Peter Martens: German airport goes Chinese. In: Sueddeutsche Zeitung . May 24, 2007, accessed June 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Airport history. Parchim International Airport, accessed June 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Ministry examines waiver of millions at airport. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung online. ZVS GmbH & Co. KG, September 8, 2010, accessed on June 28, 2013 .
- ^ NDR: From Parchim to the world - new tower opened. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Clear- cutting at Schwerin Airport. Aero Telegraph, December 19, 2018.
- ↑ Parchim Airport files for bankruptcy . North German Broadcasting . May 9, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ n-tv.de: Devastated
- ↑ Documentary about Chinese airport investor comes to the cinema
- ^ Parchim International, Dates. Lemme Film GmbH, May 17, 2016, accessed on May 23, 2016 .
