Eberswalde Finow airfield
| Eberswalde Finow airfield | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDAV |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 35 m (115 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 2 km southwest of Eberswalde, 55 km northeast of Berlin |
| Street | Federal motorway 11 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1938 |
| operator | Baukontrakt GmbH |
| Passengers | 20000 |
| Flight movements |
12000 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 10/28 | 1480 m × 50 m concrete |
| website | |
| edav.eu | |
The airfield Finow Eberswalde is a German airfield in Eberswalde .
Current usage
The airfield is approved for machines with an MTOW of up to 14 t. Until the withdrawal of the Soviet troops, aircraft up to 150 tons were operated.
Ambulance flights
Due to the fast availability of the airfield around the clock, it is particularly attractive for ambulance flights that are usually carried out at very short notice . The airport is also used for organ transports, as there are many clinics in the vicinity and, thanks to the A11, also hospitals in Berlin are within reach.
business trips
Finow Air Service GmbH offers charter flights from Eberswalde Finow. Various propeller and turboprop aircraft are available for this purpose.
Aviation Museum
On the western part of the square near the village Finowfurt is located on the site of the Aviation Museum Finowfurt . Among other things, decommissioned aircraft from military and civil aviation are shown there. A flight simulator for use by visitors is also located on the area.
The Chaos Communication Camp of the Chaos Computer Club took place on the site in 2007 and 2011 .
Solar park
On the airport site, in the immediate vicinity of the runway, under the general contractor Solarhybrid AG, the largest photovoltaic power plant in Europe at the time was built by the end of 2011 . It covers an area of around 315 hectares, cost € 178 million and has a total output of 84.7 MW p .
Furnishing
The airfield has runway lighting and a PAPI in the main approach direction . The runway was expanded to a length of 2520 m during military use in 1971, but is no longer used today. In the course of the construction of the Finow solar park , the RWY 10/28 was shortened to 1,480 meters.
The airfield has an airport fire brigade and is classified in ICAO fire protection category 3, this can be increased to category 5 on request.
There is an airport filling station ( AV-Gas , Mogas, Jet A1 ), flight preparation rooms , parking spaces, hangars and restaurants .
Use change planning
When planning the location for the future Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) airport, Finow airfield was also examined as a possible location and later rejected.
The Joint Planning Berlin-Brandenburg examined from 2007 a request from the operating company, an extension for line movement of machinery to 85 t approve to z. B. to cover a need for low-cost airlines in Finow determined by studies for the Berlin catchment area. The distance from Finow Airport to the city center of Berlin is around 55 kilometers. In May 2008, however, the plans were rejected because this could not be reconciled with the goals of airport planning and the draft of the Berlin-Brandenburg state development plan. In August 2017, the operating company of Eberswalde-Finow Airport got in touch again as a replacement for Berlin's Tegel Airport and announced a lawsuit should it be kept open after the BER airport opened .
Economic importance for the region
Company at the airfield
Several aviation companies and commercial enterprises, such as KAPI electronics GmbH , which develop and assemble flight data recorders, and Finow Air Service GmbH have settled at the airport . In a container there is also a bistro for pilots and their passengers.
There is a shooting range about 50 meters from the tower .
history
1930s and World War II
The first land purchases and preparatory work took place in 1937, and the actual expansion began in 1938, initially as a deployment port equipped with grass strips. In July 1939, the field was placed under the Jüterbog-Altes Lager Aircraft Office and two paved runways, 1,050 and 960 meters long, were laid out from 1940 to 1941. On the northern edge, five shipyard and aircraft hangars, railway sidings and the auxiliary buildings such as accommodation and storage barracks were built. The core construction phase was completed in June 1941. Both transport and school units were stationed, and from 1943 glider courses were also held. In March 1943 Finow was attacked for the first time by Allied bombers .
The first unit of the Luftwaffe , which occupied the place in January 1944, was the 2nd squadron of the night fighter group 10 equipped with Bf 110 and Ju 88. The KG 200 , which was responsible for the testing of allied prey planes, set up a shipyard for maintenance US- American B-17 bomber. Modern He 219 night fighters, flown by 3./Nachtjagdgruppe 10, were also stationed in Finow from September 1944 to February 1945. Other units included parts of Jagdgeschwader 3 and 11 as well as battle squadrons 3 and 151. On April 26, 1945, the air base was cleared by the German troops, with the runways, buildings and aircraft that were no longer ready to take off being blown up. Shortly afterwards, Soviet troops occupied the area.
Use by the Soviet Air Force
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At the end of April 1945 the airfield was occupied by Soviet troops . After the capture, a Soviet fighter regiment equipped with Yak-9 and P-40 landed in Finow for the first time on May 2, 1945 . In 1951 it was converted to MiG-15 and in 1954 to MiG-17 before it was moved to Lärz airfield in 1956 . Until 1969 there was a further interim use by the 207th front bombing regiment equipped with Il-28 . Four years after being converted to Jak-28 in 1965 , the regiment was relocated to the Russian Far East . The last unit stationed in Finow was the 787th Fighter Regiment, which was transferred there from Groß-Dölln airfield in September 1970 . His equipment initially consisted of MiG-21 , from 1975 MiG-23 and from 1982 also MiG-25 . As a result of the political détente at the end of the 1980s, the MiG-25s were returned to the Soviet Union in 1989 . As a replacement, especially for the MiG-23, MiG-29 were added to the fighter pilot regiment in the same year .
During the use by the Soviet / Russian air forces , the airfield was first given the code name LEGALNY (ЛЕГАЛЬНЫ, dt .: Legal ), in the 1970s SCHITNAJA (ЖИТНАЯ, dt .: Korn- ... ) and later in the 1980s NARSAN (НАРАН, Mineral water spring in Kislovodsk ). A new extension took place in 1983, the runway was covered with a thin layer of asphalt and another 120 mm of concrete. The construction work was carried out by VEB Autobahnbaukombinat , Road Construction Weimar division (today Vinci / Eurovia ).
After the political change in the Warsaw Pact states, the last fighter aircraft (MiG-29), now part of the Russian Air Force , left Finow airfield on May 11, 1993 for Ross , Belarus .
Incidents
On June 29, 2013, an aerobatic pilot with a Zlin Z-526 AFS-V had a fatal accident during an air show as part of the Roadrunner Festival at the airfield. After years of aircraft accident investigations , it was announced in 2017 that the pilot had made a significant contribution to the crash of the aircraft due to an illegal low-level flight below the prescribed height of 450 meters and a control error during taxiing to normal flight position. The machine also had a lack of fuel and reserve tanks on the wings that were not approved for aerobatics . The pilot died when the plane flew upside down into the Finow solar park and the machine, as can be seen on video, exploded.
Nearby airfields and airports
EDBW Airfield Werneuchen (approx. 22km away)
EDAY Strausberg Airfield (approx. 31km away)
EDDT Tegel Airport (approx. 39km away)
EDON Airfield Neuhardenberg (approx. 45km away)
EDCE Eggersdorf Airport (approx. 47km away)
EDDB Airport Schönefeld / Berlin Brandenburg International (approx. 50km away)
Others
Alexander Selin , Commander in Chief of the Russian Air Force from 2007 to 2012, began his military career as a fighter pilot with the 787th Fighter Regiment in Finow.
The television broadcaster Kabel Eins shot three episodes at the Eberswalde Finow airfield in 2017 for its documentary series "Attention Control" . It shows how an ambulance flight and the Saxony Marathon 2017 land on the airfield and how it is processed.
literature
- Jürgen Zapf: Airfields of the Air Force 1934–1945 - and what was left of them. Volume 1. Berlin & Brandenburg . VDM , Zweibrücken 2001, ISBN 3-925480-52-8 .
Web links
- Aerodrome operator website
- Chaos Communication Camp 2007 website
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.edav.eu/chronik.html Flugplatzchronik
- ↑ Europe's largest solar power plant is being built in Brandenburg . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from November 30, 2011
- ↑ Projects of the former Solarhybrid AG as of 2012 ( Memento from March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ For pilots. In: edav.eu. Flugplatz Eberswalde Finow GmbH, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ OITE. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ OITE. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture: Joint State Development Plan for Airport Location Development (LEP FS) 2007: Ordinance amending the ordinance on the State Development Plan for Airport Location Development of May 30, 2006 (GVBl p. 509) (accessed on November 28, 2010; PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ↑ State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture: Planning approval decision for the expansion of the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport from August 13, 2004, pages 350–479 (PDF; 962 kB), p. 382 ff., Accessed on November 15, 2010
- ↑ No approval for larger machines at Eberswalde-Finow airfield. airliners.de, May 5, 2008, accessed January 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Brandenburg airport operator is examining lawsuit against Tegel. Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
- ↑ OITE. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Stefan Büttner: Red places - Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994 , AeroLit, Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , p. 78
- ^ Lutz Freundt: Soviet Air Force Germany 1945-1994. Type catalog of aircraft, airfield facilities and protective structures, airfields AF (vol. 1), Freundt Eigenverlag, Diepholz 1998, ISBN 3-00-001493-4 , p. 59f.
- ^ Lutz Freundt: Soviet Air Force Germany 1945-1994. Airfields (part 2) and troop units (vol. 2), Freundt Eigenverlag, Diepholz 1998, ISBN 3-00-002665-7 , p. 52.
- ↑ Viola Petersson: Flugunlück: Final report on the crash published. October 16, 2017, accessed May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Кто командует российской авиацией. aviaport.ru, August 29, 2008, accessed on November 27, 2010 (Russian, title: “Who commands the Russian Air Force”, source: Kommersant ).
- ↑ Attention control! - Monday: life in a dive! Turbulence at Finow airfield. December 11, 2017, accessed May 12, 2020 .
