Kiel airport
| Kiel airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDHK |
| IATA code | KEL |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 31 m (102 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 7 km north of Kiel |
| Street | B 503 |
| train | - |
| Local transport | Bus: lines 91, 501, 502 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1914 |
| operator | Kieler Flugplatzgesellschaft mbH |
| surface | 100 ha |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 33,528 (2006) |
| Flight movements |
17,782 (2006) |
| Employees | 42 |
| Runways | |
| 08/26 | 1260 m × 30 m asphalt |
| 08/26 | 450 m × 35 m grass |
The airfield Kiel (also referred to as Holtenau ) is a commercial airport in Kiel . It is located seven kilometers north of downtown Kiel.
Kiel-Holtenau Air Base
The airfield has been used for military purposes since its creation and has been a naval aviation base since 1958 . Naval Aviation Squadron 5 (MFG 5) was stationed here until mid-2012 . It is known for the search and rescue operations (SAR) that were carried out from Holtenau with Sea-King helicopters. In the second half of 2012 (June to November) the squadron moved to Nordholz Air Base .
history
The airfield was built in 1914 on an area that had been leveled with the excavation of the Kiel Canal . In 1927, the Kiel Airport Company (CFG) was established to those described in the following years Country Airport Kiel operational. 27 national and international destinations were flown to. In 1937, the airport was converted into a military airfield , which was also used for civilian purposes, including scheduled flights to Braunschweig and Berlin-Tempelhof . The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1935 and 1945.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1935 | September 1936 | 1./JG 136 (1st squadron of Jagdgeschwader 136) | Arado Ar 64 , Arado Ar 65 , Heinkel He 51 |
| November 1938 | August 1939 | II. (Hunt) / Carrier Group 186 (intended for aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin ) | Messerschmitt Bf 109B , Junkers Ju 87B |
| September 1939 | November 1939 | I. (Stuka) / Carrier Group 186 (intended for aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin) | Junkers Ju 87B |
| September 1939 | September 1939 | 10th (sea) / LG 2 (10th (sea) reconnaissance squadron of training wing 2) | Dornier Thu 18 |
| March 1940 | April 1940 | Combat group for special use 105 (KGr.zbV 105) | Focke-Wulf Fw 200 , Junkers Ju 90 , Junkers G 38 |
| April 1940 | April 1940 | Is G. 1 (I. Group of Sturzkampfgeschwader 1) | Junkers Ju 87R |
In 1963, the taxiways were expanded, and in 1965 a first terminal building was built, from which passengers from PanAm to West Berlin were handled from 1970–1973. The terminal building, which is still in use today, was built in 1987. At the same time, Lufthansa started regular service to Frankfurt, with the destinations Cologne / Bonn, Munich, Copenhagen, Kaliningrad and Riga added later. In 1995 the military airfield became a civil one again, but it was still used by the military. In 1997 the establishment of the civil airfield was completed by a new tower , which, in contrast to the previous one, was operated civilly. In 2000 a new hangar was built and a potential analysis for the airport was carried out. As a result, plans began in 2001 for the expansion of the airport and the extension of the runway, which were discontinued in 2006.
In 2001 there were 31,000 flight movements to and from Kiel, including business jets. After that, however, the line connections were gradually discontinued.
From December 23, 2005 to May 2, 2006 there were no scheduled connections to / from Kiel.
From May 2, 2006 to the end of October 2006, Cirrus Airlines flew a De Havilland Canada DHC-8-100 on a scheduled flight to Munich . This machine was stationed with technicians and crew in Kiel, which should create 20 new jobs, according to the airline. The line was to be subsidized by the state for three years. Due to the low passenger numbers, scheduled operations were discontinued at the end of October 2006.
Since the end of October 2006 there have been no scheduled connections from / to Kiel.
Accidents
On February 15, 2006, a private plane coming from Russia had to make an emergency landing at Kiel Airport. A flight attendant accidentally ignited a smoke cartridge on board, which started a fire with a lot of smoke. The Dassault Falcon 20 machine slid over the runway and down an embankment. The pilot later stated that he had misunderstood the information about the runway length over the radio. Three passengers and three crew members were injured, one of them seriously. The first aid was on the spot very quickly, as the squadron fire brigade of the adjoining Marine Aviation Wing 5 was only a few hundred meters away from the scene of the accident and deployed immediately. Two firefighters from the Kiel airfield later received the rescue medal of the state of Schleswig-Holstein for “rescuing the aircraft occupants at risk of death” .
Expansion plans
The expansion plans at the beginning of this century mainly included the extension of the runway from 1300 to 2100 m to enable jet aircraft to land in Kiel. The B 503 would have tunneled under the new railway. In March 2002, the state government of Schleswig-Holstein decided to expand it. Proponents of the expansion argued that the airport was very important for the region and that this was the only way to secure regional and business air traffic. It was also claimed that the expansion was economically and ecologically harmless.
The opponents of the expansion considered the implementation of such a project to be unnecessary in order to achieve the desired results; the domestic German long-distance traffic could also be implemented with the existing connection to the ICE network. More sensible than the expansion is, above all, the connection of the Hamburg airport , which is about 75 km away (as the crow flies), to the railway and a connection from there to Kiel. It was also questioned whether the airport, which was supposed to be limited to scheduled services, would be viable after the expensive expansion. They feared that an intensive entry into charter air traffic would be necessary in order to be able to operate the airport profitably. The protest was also supported by the Altenholz community , which after Holtenau itself would have been most affected by the increased aircraft noise .
After the last airline had been discontinued at the end of 2005, the Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Economics, Dietrich Austermann, announced on January 24, 2006 that the plans had "finally been put on record".
present
The Luftsportverein Kiel e. V. resident, an association for the practice of air sports with different types of aircraft, the Academic Aviation Group of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, which operates gliders, the charter airline FLM Aviation , a helicopter service and an aircraft yard. Furthermore, ambulance flights and target display flights for the Bundeswehr are handled via Kiel-Holtenau. In addition, the International Flight Days take place annually in May , where aerobatics, glider demonstrations and parachute jumps are carried out and historical aircraft are exhibited.
Citizenship decision 2018
In 2017, the Alliance We Make Cities called for a referendum on the continued existence of the landing site and collected the necessary number of signatures. The council meeting of the state capital Kiel decided to have the referendum take place parallel to the local elections Schleswig-Holstein on May 6, 2018 . The question was: "Are you sure that the airfield Holtenau closed and instead, on the grounds of a new mixed-used district with as far as possible municipal and non-profit housing and commercial development is?" The referendum ended with 29.7% for Yes and 70.3 % for no .
Web links
- www.airport-kiel.de Official website
- Frank Behling: Emergency landing in Kiel: stewardess lit smoke cartridge. (No longer available online.) Kieler Nachrichten , February 17, 2006, archived from the original on September 16, 2008 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-1945 Germany (1937 Borders). Pp. 334-335. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ↑ Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation : Bulletin February 2006 , Az. AX001-0 / 06
- ↑ Academic Aviation Group
- ↑ Press release: The referendum on the Holtenau airfield is coming! We make city, February 21, 2018, accessed on April 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Elections & Votes on May 6, 2018. kiel.de, May 6, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2018 .
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