Kyritz Airfield
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| ICAO code | EDBK | ||
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| Height above MSL | 40 m (131 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 3 km south of Kyritz , 25 km west of Neuruppin |
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| operator | Ardex Flugplatz Kyritz GmbH | ||
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| 14L / 32R | 1000 m × 23 m asphalt | ||
| 14R / 32L | 1000 m × 30 m grass | ||
The Kyritz airfield is a commercial airfield in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district . It has an asphalt runway 1000 meters long and 23 meters wide and a grass runway 1000 meters long and 30 meters wide. The grass runway is approved for gliders , motor gliders , ultralight aircraft and powered aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of up to two tons, and for the asphalt runway up to 5.7 tons.
history
During the Second World War , the airfield served as an emergency landing site. After the Allies lifted the post-war flight ban in 1950, the desire arose in Kyritz to set up an aviation group. In 1952, those interested in aviation founded the gliding association . The Soviet city commandant and the city council of Kyritz made the airfield available to the community of interests. On October 31, 1953, glider operations began with an SG 38-108 . In 1956 a hangar with a workshop and training room was built.
From 1957 the first agricultural flights were carried out from the airfield and in the following years these activities were continuously expanded. At the beginning of the 1970s, the base at the airfield was responsible for agricultural flights for an area from the Baltic Sea to the Dresden district . 115 employees and 70 machines were stationed on the site for this purpose.
After several successful flights from the republic by plane, flight operations in the GDR were severely restricted and organized militarily. Active glider pilots with contacts in the Federal Republic were excluded from flight operations. In August 1979, glider operations at the site were finally completely stopped. The planes were distributed to other airfields.
After the fall of the Wall , the agricultural aviation base was closed and the site became the property of the Treuhandanstalt . In January 1990 the Kyritz Aviation Club was founded. On July 1, 1991 Flughafen Kyritz Betriebs GmbH was founded, one hundred percent of which was taken over by the city of Kyritz by resolution of the city council in 1996. In 1999 a 1000 meter long and 23 meter wide asphalt runway with a suitable maneuvering area was built.
Today the Kyritz airfield has modern airfield lighting , which enables night flight operations and is the location of various clubs and companies. Among other things, the Förderverein Agrarflug runs a museum with technical equipment and publications from the field of agricultural aviation. The Kyritz Aviation Club and a commercial aviation school are also located on the site.
Incidents
On July 16, 2000 a Glider of the type Grob Astir CS 77 flew through areas with a greater sink when approaching the place, so that the place could no longer be reached. The pilot decided to land on a field about 1.5 kilometers northwest of the field. At an altitude of twenty to thirty meters, the pilot made a final approach curve with an incline of forty to sixty degrees. This caused a stall and the aircraft tilted over the left wing . The aircraft touched the ground with the left wing first, which then broke off. Then the aircraft hit nose first and the fuselage shell broke. The pilot was seriously injured.
Web links
- Airfield website
- Website of the Ardex Commercial Aviation School
- Website of the Flugsport-Club Kyritz e. V.
- Website of the Agricultural Aviation Association in Kyritz
Individual evidence
- ↑ NfL 1-1822-20, German air traffic control
- ↑ AIP VFR, Deutsche Flugsicherung, 2018
- ^ History of the Kyritz airfield. City of Kyritz, accessed March 30, 2018 .
- ^ Association for the promotion of agricultural flights in Kyritz. (No longer available online.) Förderverein Agrarflug in Kyritz, archived from the original on September 28, 2017 ; accessed on March 30, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bulletin - Accidents and Serious Disruptions in the Operation of Civil Aircraft. Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation , July 2000, accessed on March 30, 2018 .
