Karlsruhe-Forchheim airfield
| Karlsruhe-Forchheim Airport (closed) | |||
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| Height above MSL | 116 m (381 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 6 km southwest of Karlsruhe | ||
| Street | B36 | ||
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| opening | 1957 (glider airfield as early as 1954) | ||
| closure | 2002 | ||
| operator | Karlsruhe Airport GmbH | ||
| surface | 26 ha | ||
| Terminals | 1 | ||
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| 03/21 | 950 m × 30 m asphalt | ||
| 03/21 | 840 m × 30 m grass | ||
The airport Karlsruhe-Forchheim (also airfield Karlsruhe-Forchheim or airport Karlsruhe-Forchheim ) was until 2000 the airfield in the city of Karlsruhe and served the general aviation . It was located south of the city in the Rheinstetten district of Forchheim . The tower and hangars have meanwhile been torn down and the Karlsruhe Exhibition Center is located on the site. Part of the asphalt runway can still be seen.
Due to the construction of the fair, flight operations were relocated to Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden Airport. International flights have also been handled there since then. A few hundred meters east of the former airfield, the Rheinstetten glider airfield has been in operation since 2004 with an 830 meter long grass runway and a 1030 meter long winch runway in the 02/20 directions.
history
The airfield has been operated by Karlsruhe Airport GmbH since 1957. In 1965, the asphalt runway and night flight lights were put into operation. In the 1960s, three Fouga Magister CM 170R jet planes were owned by the Aviation Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces e. V. stationed at the site. Aircraft types such as the Nord Noratlas transport aircraft and, most recently, the Bombardier Challenger 600 business aircraft also flew to the airfield again and again . There were also holiday flights by Naske-Air from Braunschweig in the 1980s.
From the beginning to the mid-1990s, there were around 52,000 to 65,500 take-offs and landings at the airfield each year, of which around 15,000 to 22,500 were commercial traffic. Around 90,000 to 112,000 passengers were carried annually. After the opening of the Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden airport, traffic fell sharply. On September 30, 2000, the Forchheim airfield was closed to powered flight. In the transitional period up to the opening of the new Rheinstetten glider airfield, the remaining 03/21 grass runway on the airfield behind the fair was used as a special airfield to a limited extent until 2002 . The four aviation clubs that were based at the Forchheim airfield moved to the Rheinstetten glider airfield.
Web links
- History of the Karlsruhe-Forchheim airfield by Manfred Heil
- Karlsruhe-Forchheim airfield in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Karlsruhe: Flight operations at the Karlsruhe-Forchheim airfield, ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
- ^ Jeppesen: Bottlang Airfield Manual , July 26, 2002
