Airfield bee farm
| Airfield bee farm | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EDOI | ||
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| Height above MSL | 31 m (102 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 4 km east of Paulienenaue | ||
| train | Regional Express | ||
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| operator | Airfield Bienenfarm GmbH | ||
| surface | 80 ha | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 12/30 | 860 m × 40 m grass | ||
The bee farm airfield is a special airfield in Brandenburg around 2 km east of Paulinenaue and around 30 km west of Berlin. The airfield with the thematic focus on "historic aircraft" is mainly used by powered aircraft, microlight aircraft and motor gliders, occasionally also by balloons, helicopters and parachutists.
history
The bee farm airfield is an old agricultural airfield , which was taken over by the Helm flight school from Hof / Bavaria after the fall of the Wall. It was successful in the area and very soon built a workshop, a hangar and other infrastructure. After the construction of a modern building with a restaurant, flight school, apartment and office, the school got into financial difficulties; the owner of the field changed again at the turn of the millennium and in October 2017 the airfield was taken over by a group of Quax members. The new owners are expanding the airfield into a special location for classic car aviation. To this end, a new hangar that has been planned for a long time will be built in 2020. From September 2020, the 1800 square meter large, wooden hall will offer space for over 20 historical aircraft, which will be made accessible to the interested public as a regularly changing exhibition.
The Berlin-Brandenburg flight school, which operates aircraft such as the Cessna 172SP with Garmin 1000, American Champion, Grob 115 D and a Fuji 200, is also located at the Bienenfarm airfield.
Vintage aviation
The Quax-Oldtimerverein has been firmly established at the bee farm for many years and has been operating it since 2018. There are 10 to 15 oldtimers stationed in the bee farm.
For example, the following specimens are currently in the bee farm:
- Focke-Wulf Fw 44 "Stieglitz"
- Boeing Stearman
- North American T-6 / Harvard IV
- Pilatus P-3
- de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth
- Cessna Model C-145 Airmaster
- de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
- Bölkow Bo 208
- Dornier Thu 27
- Jodel D120A
- Cessna 172 (1959 Ur-Cessna without rear window ('fast back' version) and with vertically mounted rudder ('straight tail'))
There are also changing patterns from the Quax club's fleet.
literature
- From poets and pilots: a visit to the beautiful Havelland. In: aerokurier No. 6/2018, pp. 36-38
Web links
Press links
- Aviation Classic: Ex-Air Force Harvard Returns Home (September 1, 2016)
- MAZ: Old airfield to become a Mecca for vintage cars (October 10, 2017)
- Aviation classic: a new wind for the bee farm (November 8, 2017)
- Flug Revue: groundbreaking for new hangar at the bee farm (May 20, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Danilo Hafer: The old airfield should become a Mecca for vintage cars. In: Märkische Allgemeine. October 10, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Quax Association for the Promotion of Historical Aircraft. Accessed on February 8, 2019 (English).
