Hamburg-Finkenwerder airport

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Finkenwerder airfield

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Characteristics
ICAO code EDHI
IATA code XFW
Coordinates

53 ° 32 '9 "  N , 9 ° 50' 13"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '9 "  N , 9 ° 50' 13"  E

Height above MSL 7 m (23  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km from Hamburg
Street Kreetslag 10
Local transport HVV , see section traffic connection
Basic data
operator Airbus Operations GmbH
Start-and runway
05/23 3183 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Hamburg-Finkenwerder airfield ( IATA : XFW , ICAO : EDHI ) is a special airfield in the south-west of Hamburg and part of the Airbus Operations GmbH plant in Hamburg-Finkenwerder on the Elbe . It has a runway on which around 10 to 15 aircraft take off and land every working day as part of test and delivery flights as well as material transport and company air traffic.

location

The Airbus premises are about 10 km as the crow flies west of Hamburg city center. It belongs to the district of Finkenwerder and thus to the district of Hamburg-Mitte . A large part of the plant is located on the landfill area in the former Mühlenberger Loch . The approach lane runs in the north over the Hamburg Elbe suburbs and over the Elbe , in the south over the Neuenfelde district .

Transport links

Lines 150 and 146 go to the bus stop of the HVV Airbus from Altona or Harburg stations .

The airport is connected to the A7 via the Hamburg-Waltershof junction .

The HADAG ferry line 68 runs on weekdays in the mornings and afternoons between the Teufelsbrück ferry pier and the AIRBUS pier . Exiting is only permitted for factory employees.

history

The airfield was originally built in 1954 as a works airfield for the then Hamburger Flugzeugbau . In 1964, the third prototype of the Transall C-160 made its maiden flight here .

On May 31, 1967, the chief pilot of the Spanish charter company Spantax landed with a Convair CV-990 on the then only 1360 m long runway at Hamburg-Finkenwerder because he had mistaken it for a 3000 m long runway at the international airport Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel . He brought the machine to a stop just before the end of the runway ( see also: “Finkenwerder Airlines” ) .

Airbus factory airfield

The Hamburg-Finkenwerder airfield, as Airbus works airfield, is the location of the first flight of all Airbus A318 , A319 , A321 and also a part of the A320 , which are finally assembled in Hamburg and delivered to customers. Airbus A380s have been flying to the airport since 2007 for the purpose of interior fittings, painting and delivery. The Airbus Beluga , a cargo version of the Airbus A300 , delivers the larger aircraft sections ( Airbus A320 family ) or picks them up ( Airbus A330 family ). Passenger aircraft of the Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT) type Fokker 100 , which were replaced by A319 from Germania in November 2011 and then operated by the British charter airline Titan Airways, also operated factory traffic to various European Airbus locations . This service has been provided by the Spanish airline Volotea since 2019.

In April 2006, work began on extending the runway for the cargo version of the A380, the A380F. The runway was extended from 2684 m in length to the southwest to 3183 m. On July 16, 2007, the extended runway was handed over to Airbus after the construction work was completed. This meant that the runway extension was completed about two months earlier than originally planned. Before the runway extension could begin, legal actions by 184 plaintiffs who had opposed the expansion of the runway because of the loss of land and the noise pollution had been dismissed, so that the construction freeze was lifted completely in March 2006 and the groundbreaking ceremony on April 19, 2006 took place.

View from the northern bank of the Elbe: the factory premises with the Super Guppy preserved as a museum
aircraft .

Passenger flights

Scheduled flights are not operated. The only passenger flights are those of the "works charter" to Toulouse .

airline Flight number target Aircraft type frequency
Volotea (for Airbus) - Toulouse A319 2 times a day

Airport fire brigade

The airport fire brigade is part of the Airbus Operations GmbH plant fire brigade . She is also responsible for winter maintenance on the runway. The vehicles are covered with the silhouette of an A380 by the company Design 112 . In addition to the rescue group vehicle and the telescopic mast , an airfield fire fighting vehicle and three swap-loader vehicles with a roll-off container extinguishing agent are available for fire fighting. World icon

Incidents

  • On September 16, 1959, a Nord Noratlas 2501D of the Luftwaffe with the aircraft registration GC + 106 (serial number: D062) crashed during a factory test flight near Oederquart, almost 50 kilometers from the Hamburg-Finkenwerder start and destination airport. The four crew members were members of HFB Finkenwerder and perished.

Web links

Commons : Airbus-Werk Hamburg-Finkenwerder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of aircraft construction in Hamburg . In: Walther Blohm Foundation . Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  2. "Germania takes over Airbus factory traffic" on airliners.de from August 2, 2011 , accessed on July 2, 2012
  3. a b Volotea flies Airbus factory shuttle. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  4. ReGe Hamburg Projekt-Realisierungsgesellschaft : Runway handed over to Airbus ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. Karl Olaf Petters: Construction of the runway extension is going very quickly, ReGe is planning an earlier handover to Airbus , ReGe Hamburg . September 1, 2006. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. 
  6. ^ Karl Olaf Petters: bypassing the runway extension is opened to traffic , ReGe Hamburg . December 19, 2006. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved on May 22, 2007. 
  7. Guards: WF Airbus Operations GmbH Hamburg-Finkenwerder - BOS vehicles - emergency vehicles and guards worldwide. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  8. ^ Accident report Noratlas GC + 106 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 6, 2019.