Aschaffenburg airfield
| Aschaffenburg airfield | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EDFC | ||
| IATA code | ZCB | ||
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| Height above MSL | 125 m (410 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 7 km southwest of Aschaffenburg | ||
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| Basic data | |||
| opening | 1936 as a military airfield | ||
| operator | Aschaffenburg Aviation Club | ||
| Runways | |||
| 08/26 | 784 m × 20 m asphalt | ||
| 08/26 | 737 m × 30 m grass | ||
The airfield Aschaffenburg (also: Airfield Großostheim-Ringheim ) is the airfield of the Lower Franconian town of Aschaffenburg . It is operated by the Flugsportclub Aschaffenburg-Großostheim eV .
geography
The airfield is located seven kilometers southwest of the Aschaffenburg town center and two kilometers north of Großostheim at an altitude of 125 m .
In terms of nature, it is located in the Bachgau on the western arm of the Mainviereck . To the east the terrain rises towards the Spessart and immediately to the west is the state border with Hesse .
history
Aviation was already in operation in Aschaffenburg in the 1930s. The first airfield was built as a military airfield in the middle of what is now the Ringheim district . From 1936 onwards, around 100 hectares of forest were cleared to create an airfield . For reasons of secrecy, the airfield was not listed in the general measurement table at that time. Only one flak position built to protect it at the edge of the forest is mentioned there as a tiny “shoot”.
After the Second World War and the occupation of the area in the Holy Week before Easter 1945 by Allied troops, the Germans were initially banned from flying. In 1950, after the flight ban was lifted, the Flugsportclub Aschaffenburg e. V. re-established. In 1952, flight operations could initially be resumed with gliders ( winch launch ) and from 1960 there was again motorized flight. In the late 1960s, the dense development gradually became too narrow and a little further east, almost twice as large, was leased. Flight operations on the new airfield at the Waldspitze began in 1977. In the following years, parallel to the grass runway , an asphalt runway , club and workshop building with a control center, hangars, a gas station and a taxiway with a helipad were built at the western end.
Airfield and equipment
The airfield is approved for all types of aircraft up to 5700 kg MTOW . The holder of the airfield is the Flugsportclubs Aschaffenburg-Großostheim e. V. The regular operating times are from 8:00 am to sunset (maximum 8:00 pm). During the rest of the time, landing is only possible with the permission of the owner ( PPR ).
There are several farm buildings and hangars, a tower (frequency 132.430 MHz) and a managed clubhouse. There are several companies at the site, including a. a hangar, a flyer shop, a flight charter company, flight schools and a helicopter flight service.
The asphalt runway has runway lighting and is equipped with precision glide slope lighting ( PAPI ). There is a filling station for aviation fuel, mogas and turbine fuel. Aschaffenburg is a customs airport. (PPR + 3h / + 24h)
Arrival and departure
The traffic pattern is north of the field at an altitude of 1,400 feet, the airfield circuit in the south. The course is 1.4 NM on Radial 039 of Charlie- VOR . In addition, the space is located below airspace C of Frankfurt Airport , so that incoming and outgoing traffic must not exceed a maximum height of 3500 feet. In 2013, an extension of the runway by 350 m in the direction of Aschaffenburg was approved by aviation law.
Incidents
- On June 3, 1984 at Flugtag came a whiz type Harrier 30 m above the runway on fire. The pilot was able to steer the machine from the spectator area and save himself with the ejector seat , but afterwards it killed a spectator.
- On May 7, 2006, a Grob G 109 motor glider collided in the air with a shoulder- wing Cessna 172 N while approaching EDFC and then crashed in a wooded area. Both occupants of the motor glider were killed and the aircraft was completely destroyed. The Cessna was able to make an emergency landing without landing gear, severely damaged, with one person being slightly injured.
- On July 12, 2009 a historic biplane performed aerobatic exercises. If the loop was flown too low , the chassis tore a car off the road and broke. Both the aircraft and the car were thrown into a field, causing several occupants to be slightly to moderately injured. The plane was destroyed.
- On March 2, 2013, a single-engine SF 25 C disc occupied by two people crashed in Aschaffenburg after an unsuccessful landing approach while attempting to take off. The aircraft was destroyed, the two occupants were seriously injured; the 82-year-old pilot later succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
- On December 28, 2019, an ultralight aircraft took off on EDFC for a sightseeing flight, with the canopy coming off. The aircraft was badly damaged during the subsequent emergency landing in a nearby field.
- On June 12, 2020, a glider took off from Aschaffenburg via aircraft tow . Due to technical problems with the towing machine, the towing process had to be aborted at a low altitude, whereupon the 67-year-old glider pilot decided to make an emergency landing on the B469 . The aircraft was damaged and the pilot was taken to hospital, seriously injured.
Web links
- Website of the Aviation Club Aschaffenburg
- Aschaffenburg Airport at Oberpfalz-luftbild.de
- Aeronautical map for Aschaffenburg Airport on SkyVector.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b site in Bavaria Atlas Klassik 1944
- ^ History of the Aschaffenburg airfield
- ^ Press report The time of the flight accident in 1984
- ↑ BFU investigation report 3X031-1-2 / 06
- ↑ Press report Spiegel online from July 12, 2009
- ↑ BFU investigation report 3X005-13
- ↑ Police report of December 28, 2019
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Bavaria: glider has to make an emergency landing on federal highway - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
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