Coburg-Brandensteinsebene Airport

Coburg-Brandensteinsebene Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EDQC
Coordinates	50 ° 15 '48 "  N , 10 ° 59' 42"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '48 "  N , 10 ° 59' 42"  E
Height above MSL	453 m (1486  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	2 km east of Coburg
Local transport	City bus route 5
Basic data
opening	October 3, 1924
operator	Aero Club Coburg e. V.
Start-and runway
12/30	632 m × 20 m asphalt

Approach to runway 30

Tower

The Coburg-Brandensteinsebene airfield ( ICAO code EDQC ), approved as a commercial airfield , is located above the Veste Coburg , in the middle of a low mountain range between the Thuringian Forest , Rhön and Fichtel Mountains .

history

The airfield was opened in August 1913 as a military air base by Duke Carl Eduard with an aircraft hangar. 15,000 visitors were present. The first official test flights on the Brandenstein Plain, which is in the vicinity of Veste Coburg , took place the year before on June 19, 1912 by Willy Kanitz. During the First World War, the air base was an alternative airfield for the Gotha Air Force Replacement Department 3. In October 1924, the civil airfield on the Brandesteins Plain was finally inaugurated. Today it is owned by the City of Coburg. The Aero Club Coburg e. V., which receives an operating subsidy of 120,000 euros from the city. The airfield had around 15,500 take-offs and landings in 2011 and can be approached with aircraft up to a maximum take-off weight of 5.7 tons on a runway over 632 meters in length.

Due to the plateau position of the airfield and the very short runway, the Brandensteins Plain is a mission airfield of the Bundeswehr. It is approached by the Bundeswehr Air Force with a Transall C-160 for training take-offs and landings .

Events

• Airshow Coburg 4th – 5th July 2015.
• In June 2006 the German Women's Gliding Championship took place at the airfield.

Extension or new construction

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In order to maintain Coburg's competitiveness, the aim is to expand or build a new airfield. A regional planning procedure was therefore initiated in February 2007 and completed in August 2007. Neida (northwest of Coburg), Gossenberg (southwest of the city) and Bieberbach (east of Coburg) are checked as locations. An expansion of the existing Coburg-Brandensteinsebene airfield was unanimously rejected by the Coburg City Council in June 2008. With the expansion, a maximum length of 1200 meters for the runway could have been achieved instead of the targeted 1800 meters. Due to the necessary infrastructural measures, for example backing up large amounts of soil, an airport expansion would cost roughly the same as a new building in the surrounding area with a 50% longer runway (1800 m). An expansion of the Coburg-Steinrück special airfield is not possible due to the neighboring nature reserves and the high-speed route Nuremberg – Erfurt .

At the beginning of 2010 it was announced that valid for the airfield Brandensteinsebene since 2001 Exemption for flight operations under the provisions of the instrument flight on December 2010 in the part of the Federal Ministry of Transport would not be extended since it could make no effort so far To "create a directive-compliant condition of this airfield ." Therefore, both the Coburg city council and the district council, together with the companies Kapp Werkzeugmaschinen and Brose Fahrzeugteile as well as the Coburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, decided to set up a project company to initiate a plan approval procedure for a new airport building at the Neida location to found. In July 2010, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs announced that it would support the exemption from the relevant decision-making bodies beyond 2010. At the end of October 2014, the application for planning approval for the construction of a new airfield near Neida, as a replacement for the Coburg-Brandensteinsebene airfield, was submitted to the North Bavaria Aviation Authority in Ansbach .

On December 29, 2010, all instrument flight procedures (approach / departure) were suspended by NOTAM . The airfield was thus only approved for traffic under visual flight rules until further notice . After the renovation with a shortening of the 860 meter long runway was completed at the beginning of July and accepted by the Northern Bavaria Aviation Office, the new IFR approach procedures for runway 30 came into effect on the AIRAC date on July 26, 2012. In addition to the shortening of the runway to 632 meters, shortened approach lighting for the main landing direction 30 was also put into operation.

Web links

Commons : Flugplatz Coburg-Brandensteinsebene  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Coburg Brandensteinsebene airfield
• Aero Club Coburg
• Airshow Coburg
• German Women's Gliding Championship 2006
• EDQC spotter photographs around the Coburg airfield

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2010 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.  
2. ↑ Neue Presse, May 18, 2010
3. ↑ Neue Presse, July 16, 2010
4. ↑ http://www.np-coburg.de/lokal/coburg/coburg/np+verkehrslandeplatz+in+coburg./Start-fuer-neuen-Flugplatz;art83423,3680474