Eichstätt Airport

Eichstätt Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EDPE
Coordinates	48 ° 52 '37 "  N , 11 ° 10' 55"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '37 "  N , 11 ° 10' 55"  E
Height above MSL	522 m (1713  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	2 km south of Eichstätt
Basic data
opening	1952
operator	Eichstätt Aviation Club
Start-and runway
11/29	715 m × 35 m grass runway
website
fliegerclub-eichstaett.de

Eichstätt Airport, view from the south (2012)

EDPE top left on the hill, in front the Willibaldsburg aerial photo, view from the northwest (2010)

The airfield Eichstätt is the Sonderlandeplatz the Upper Bavarian town of Eichstaett . He is from the Fliegerclub Eichstätt e. V. operated.

location

The airfield is located about two kilometers south of Eichstätt on a clearly exposed plateau , the Waschetten , (Bavarian expression, actual field name: Maierwiese auf dem Waschegerten ) at an altitude of 515 to 522  m above sea level. NN . To the west is the district of Wasserzell and the route of the Eichstätt branch line . The airfield is naturally located on the southern edge of the Franconian Jura . To the north, the terrain drops steeply to the Altmühl valley , to the south it gradually descends to the Schutter , both of which flow east into the Danube .

Airfield and equipment

The airfield is for aircraft up to 2000 kg and for helicopters up to 5000 kg. The owner of the airfield is the Fliegerclub Eichstätt e. V.

There are several farm buildings , a hangar , a workshop , a winch launch facility and there is a refueling facility . There is also a clubhouse with a terrace and a children's playground . A flight school and 15 aircraft are stationed at the airfield.

history

→ Main article : Fliegerclub Eichstätt

A glider and model aircraft operation took place in Eichstätt in a local group of the German Air Sports Association (DLV) before the Second World War . After the Allies' flight ban ended on January 6, 1950, the Eichstätt e. V. founded. In June 1951, the association began gliding, which was again permitted. After several starts at the Volksfestplatz, at the Häringhof and on the Aumühlwiesen, the airfield on the Waschetten was moved into in 1952 .

In 1975 some of the buildings on the airfield burned down, with four club gliders and two private planes being lost.

Incidents

• On June 17, 1977, an airplane crashed near Dollnstein , killing a club member.
• On August 5, 1978, a plane crash occurred in which a pilot and his wife were killed.
• In June 1988 a Schleicher K 8 glider got stuck in the treetops on approach.
• On June 6, 1998, a Bölkow 207 (registration D-EJAR ) crashed into the forest after a stopover in Eichstätt and burned out. Four people were killed here.
• On September 8, 2018 to 16:15 collapsed ultralight aircraft of type WT-9 shortly after takeoff at the airport in good weather yet unknown reason from, both pilots were seriously injured.

traffic

Sign on the footpath over the Eichstätt airfield, view from the south

A municipal road connects the airfield to the federal road 13 running immediately north in the Altmühltal . The public transport not operated the airfield, the nearest pick-up points are made in less than 2 km away Eichstätt- station and km in less than 3 remote water cell to the branch line Eichstätt and in about 3 km away Rebdorf to bus lines # 110 and No 120.. Landershofen - center - Weinleite or Weinleite - Center - Landershofen .

A footpath leads directly over the airfield.

Web links

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

• Web presence of the Fliegerclub Eichstätt eV
• Eichstätt Airport at Oberpfalz-luftbild.de
• Information on the airfield for pilots at airports.de
• Video from the 2016 Fliegerfest at Eichstätt airfield on YouTube (3:03 minutes)
• Aviation map for Eichstätt Airport on SkyVector.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Waschetten from Latin language relics in the Bavarian dialect , accessed on July 5, 2018
2. ↑ Washing devices at BayernAtlas
3. ↑ Airfield at Fliegerclub Eichstätt, accessed on July 5, 2018
4. ↑ Flight instructor at Fliegerclub Eichstätt, accessed on July 5, 2018
5. ↑ Aircraft at Fliegerclub Eichstätt, accessed on July 5, 2018
6. ↑ Our club at Fliegerclub Eichstätt, accessed on July 5, 2018
7. ↑ Chronicle of the 1950s at Fliegerclub Eichstätt, accessed on July 5, 2018
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Chronicle of the 1970s at Fliegerclub Eichstätt, accessed on July 5, 2018
9. ↑ Chronicle of the 1980s at Fliegerclub Eichstätt, accessed on July 5, 2018
10. ↑ Chronicle of the 1990s at Fliegerclub Eichstätt, accessed on July 5, 2018
11. ↑ Accident report Bölkow Bo 207 D-EJAR from Aviation Safety Network WikiBase , accessed on September 9, 2018
12. ↑ accident report Aerospool WT-9 Dynamic D-MEIH at Aviation Safety Network WikiBase (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
13. ↑ Flight instructors and students critically injured in a crash from the Munich newspaper Abendzeitung , accessed on September 9, 2018
14. ↑ Plane crashed: Two pilots seriously injured at Donaukurier , accessed on September 9, 2018
15. ↑ Plane crash in Eichstätt - two occupants seriously injured at intv , accessed on September 9, 2018