Arnsberg-Menden airfield
Arnsberg-Menden airfield |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDLA |
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| Height above MSL | 242 m (794 ft ) |
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| Distance from the city center | 6 km northwest of Arnsberg |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1970 |
| operator | Flugplatzgesellschaft Arnsberg-Menden mbH |
| Start-and runway | |
| 05/23 | 920 m × 20 m asphalt |
The airfield Arnsberg-Menden is a German airfield in the town of Arnsberg and around the city of Menden in the Sauerland .
location
The airfield is located in the Hochsauerlandkreis , 6 km northwest of the Arnsberg district of Neheim-Hüsten and south of the Wicked district of Echthausen in Arnsberg - Vosswinkel an der Ruhr , which flows past it to the east and north. The distance to Düsseldorf is about 130 km, to Dortmund it is about 50 km. The landing site can be reached by car via the A 445 , exit Arnsberg-Neheim and via B 7 and K 22.
development
The airfield was first built in 1970 as a commercial airfield for the Arnsberg district . After the communal territorial reform of 1975 it became the property of the Hochsauerlandkreis . He operated it until 2000. Then a group of 13 shareholders from the regional economy took over the business from 2001 to 2006. In 2006, eleven shareholders left; only the companies OBO Bettermann and Lobbe from Iserlohn remained. In April 2012 Lobbe left the partnership agreement, so OBO Bettermann is now the sole partner. Flugplatzgesellschaft Arnsberg-Menden mbH owns both the site and the technical and structural infrastructure .
According to the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia , the space was listed in the 2010 air traffic concept as a focus airfield for business air traffic. In order to meet the provisions of the Joint Aviation Regulations on the commercial transport of people and things in aircraft (JAR-OPS 1), an expansion, in particular an extension of the runway, was necessary.
Classification
The airfield Arnsberg-Menden for machines approved 5700 kg maximum take-off mass, for heavier aircraft such as the C-160 Transall the Federal Armed with a maximum weight of 50 tons, there is almost an exemption.
Flight operations
There are no scheduled or charter flights. The Luftsportclub Arnsberg eV and the Luftsportgemeinschaft Westfalen eV operate local flight operations on the site of the airfield. The owner of the OBO Bettermann company, Ulrich Leo Bettermann , as well as several other companies in the area have their aircraft in Arnsberg.
Incidents
On October 3, 1974, 25 minutes after take-off, a five-person Piper sports machine crashed on a sightseeing flight near Endorfer Hütte . All five inmates died.
On August 27, 2013 plunged an occupied eight people airplane type Piper PA 32 Saratoga , license plate D-EERB , on the approach to the airport from. Five of the occupants, including two women, the pilot, a teenager and a child, died in this accident, three children survived. The cause of the accident was an empty fuel tank. The Dortmund public prosecutor's office suspects that the pilot decided against an emergency landing and wanted to use the aircraft's sailing properties in order to be able to land as planned. However, the height was no longer sufficient, so that the aircraft crashed about 3500 m from the airfield on the Ruhrwiesen between Wickede (Ruhr) and Fröndenberg .
literature
- 40 years of Arnsberg-Menden airfield in Voßwinkeler Rückblicke , magazine of the Vosswinkel Village History Working Group, issue 6/2012, pages 15-17
Web links
- Website of the airport operating company Arnsberg-Menden
- Website of the Luftsportgemeinschaft Westfalen eV
- Website of the Arnsberg Air Sports Club
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnsberg-Menden airfield. Flugplatzbetriebsgesellschaft Arnsberg-Menden mbH, accessed on November 5, 2012 : "Behind the Flugplatzgesellschaft there is OBO BETTERMANN GmbH and Co. KG, which has held all the shares since April 2012."
- ^ Sven Nölting, Andreas Thiemann: Electrical entrepreneur Bettermann takes over Arnsberg-Menden Airport. In: The West (online edition). April 12, 2012, Retrieved November 5, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Reiner Burger: His will be done . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . No. 44 , November 5, 2012, p. 2-3 .
- ↑ Answer of the state government to the minor question 2334 of the member Gerd Stüttgen SPD (printed matter 14/6241). (PDF; 13 kB) State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 7, 2008, accessed on November 5, 2012 .
- ↑ from the Voßwinkeler Rückblicke magazine , issue 7 from December 2009, page 1
- ^ [1] Investigation report
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