Lahr airport
| Lahr airport | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDTL |
| IATA code | LHA |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 155 m (509 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 2 km west of Lahr |
| Street |
 
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| Local transport | Bus route 104 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1996 |
| operator | Lahrer Flugbetriebs GmbH & Co. KG |
| surface | 580 ha |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 7000 (2007) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 03/21 | 3000 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Lahr airport is a German airport in the Baden town of Lahr ( districts Lahr and Hugsweier) and the adjacent municipality Friesenheim (district Schuttern ) in Ortenaukreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg . It is classified as a special airport with the status “special airport for freight”. The company has been run by Lahrer Flugbetriebs GmbH & Co. KG since October 1, 2013, after the previous operating company filed for bankruptcy on January 31, 2013.
status
Commercial landing pad for airplanes and helicopters up to 20 tons maximum take-off weight . Air traffic with aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of more than 25 tonnes requires approval in accordance with Section 25 LuftVG by the Freiburg Regional Council (granted depending on the occasion). Cargo flights can be handled without weight restrictions.
Directions
The airport is located directly at the Lahr A5 junction and 2 km west of Lahr.
Natural location
Lahr Airport is located in the Strasbourg - Offenburg Rhine plain in the Middle Upper Rhine Lowland, near the Upper Rhine , which forms the border with France there .
history
The beginnings
The airfield has an eventful history and is one of the oldest airfields in Germany. Its history dates back to the time of the First World War , as here a Jagdeinsitzerstaffel was stationed and Zeppelinhalle for airships of the army had been built.
Base aérienne 139 Lahr
The airport Lahr stood since 1945 under the command of the French occupation forces . In 1952 the airfield was a Lahr NATO - military airfield for military jets of the French Armée de l'air .
Initially , the 1st Fighter Squadron , 1er escadre de chasse (1er EC), equipped with F-86G , lay here for a few months until it was moved to Saint-Dizier in 1953 .
In March 1956 the 13th all-weather fighter squadron, 13e escadre de chasse tout temps (13e ECTT), was set up here, which flew the F-86K alongside a handful of T-33s until it was moved to Colmar-Meyenheim .
In June 1957 the reconnaissance squadron 33ème Escadre de Reconnaissance (33e ER) was added. The two reconnaissance groups equipped with the F-86F were relocated to Strasbourg in autumn 1959 and spring 1960 respectively.
Later, from June 1961, the 3e escadre de chasse (3e EC) was located here , which the F-100D flew in the nuclear "strike" role. The conversion to the Mirage IIIE took place in 1965/1966 . As a result of France's withdrawal from the military integration of NATO, the squadron was moved to Nancy-Ochey in August 1967 .
Canadian Forces Base Lahr
After France withdrew from the alliance in 1966, Lahr became the seat of the European headquarters of the Canadian NATO forces. The Royal Canadian Air Force moved into the Royal Canadian Air Force Station Lahr (RCAF Lahr) in March 1967 with the headquarters of the 1st Air Force Division , 1st Air Division Headquarters , and the 1st Squadron, 1st Wing . This was from April 1967 of two so far in Marville lying CF-104 squadrons, the 439th and 441st Squadron . In February 1969, another CF-104 squadron came to Lahr with the 430th . The latter was dissolved in May 1970 and the two remaining squadrons were relocated to Söllingen in July 1970 .
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As a result of a reorganization of the Canadian armed forces, the RCAF station became Canadian Forces Base Europe (CFB Europe, from November 1979 CFB Lahr) in February 1968 and later that year Lahr was the scene of the NATO Tiger Meet .
Due to budget cuts, the Canadian troops in West Germany were consolidated and Lahr became home to most of the ground troops previously stationed in the area of the British Rhine Army in Westphalia (Soest, Hemer-Deilinghofen, Unna, Werl), while the remaining combat squadrons of the air forces were on the Airfield in Söllingen based. The army units were combined in the 4th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group and formed a reserve of the VII US Corps .
In addition to the ground troops, Lahr was home to a tactical helicopter squadron from 1971 to April 1991, the 444th Tactical Helicopter Squadron , which was equipped with the CH-136 , as well as some transport aircraft. It was subordinate to the 1st Canadian Air Group (1st CAG), also stationed in Lahr . In addition, the base was a logistics hub including the function of European air head for Canadian transport aircraft such as the Boeing 707 . In the 1970s, NATO also built a series of so-called hardened aircraft shelters in Lahr .
As a result of the accelerated arms race between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in the early 1980s, the 1st Air Division replaced the 1st CAG in May 1988 . The 3rd wing was added at the same time . In addition to the 444th squadron, this squadron had two CF-18 (CF-188) squadrons, the 416th and 433rd Squadron . In peacetime, however, these squadrons operated from their Canadian home bases Cold Lake and Bagotville, respectively .
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Canada decided in 1990 to withdraw its troops from reunified Germany. The 4th Mechanized Brigade was disbanded on August 31, 1993, the 1st Air Transport Unit followed on October 1. After a final parade on May 25, 1994 and the dissolution of Canadian Forces Base Lahr on August 31, 1994, the site was returned to Germany.
Lahr airport
As early as 1989, Lufthansa carried out regular training flights in Lahr with the newly introduced Boeing 747-430.
Even before the Canadian armed forces withdrew from Lahr completely, Flugplatz Lahr GmbH was founded in 1991. However, flight operations ceased completely after the withdrawal of the Canadian armed forces, a large part of the flying infrastructure (for example the approach lighting and the NDB) was dismantled or fell victim to vandalism, and the field did not have an operating license under aviation law. It was not until the second half of the 1990s that the facilities were used again as a commercial airfield.
From this point in time Lahr was included in the night airmail network of Deutsche Post AG and during this period, Deutsche Lufthansa carried out regular mail flights with Boeing 737-330 aircraft. In addition, flights with aircraft of the type Antonov An-124 were often carried out in order to transport parts of tunnel boring machines from the nearby Herrenknecht company to their destination without costly land transport.
The successor company "Black Forest Airport Lahr GmbH" had been 99 percent in the hands of private investors since spring 2001 ( Wiggins Group , later renamed PlaneStation Group, England). The remaining percent belonged to shareholders from the original holding company.
In July 2005, following the insolvency of the PlaneStation Group, the GmbH shares were taken over by the airport operator Churchill Airports, a subsidiary of the Babcock & Brown Investment Group .
In November 2002, the "Black Forest Airport Lahr GmbH", as a Wiggins subsidiary, applied for a license to operate a commercial airport, which was refused by the Freiburg Regional Council and the Baden-Württemberg state government at the time.
In January 2006, the operating company Churchill Airports and Babcock & Brown applied for a restricted passenger flight license , which was approved on June 16, 2006 by the Freiburg Regional Council.
From then on, Lahr Airport was allowed to act as the exclusive feeder airport for Europa-Park Rust. The lawsuit for an unrestricted license at the Federal Administrative Court was then withdrawn. On October 28, 2006, an Airbus A320 operated by Air Berlin was the first aircraft to take guests to Europa-Park to land at Lahr Airport. In 2010 the Europa-Park flights to and from Lahr were discontinued due to a lack of demand. Since 2010 the airport Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden has acted as a feeder airport for Europa-Park.
Since April 29, 2011, the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) offered the airfield for sale. The entire flight operations area of 210 hectares was for sale. In parallel to the sale of the airfield site, the existing aviation permits should also be sold to the future owner.
The city of Lahr bought the airport site on December 11, 2012, and in September 2013 the operating licenses and fixed assets were acquired from the bankruptcy estate.
Lahrer Flugbetriebs GmbH & Co. KG has been the operator of the airport since October 1st, 2013.
Due to its flying infrastructure, the airport is used more frequently for government flights, for example during the NATO summit in April 2009. On the occasion of his visit to Germany, Pope Benedict XVI landed . on September 24, 2011 with an A340-313X of the Luftwaffe (16 + 01) at Lahr airfield, where he was greeted by Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann . The Pope then drove on to Freiburg via the A5. After his return from Freiburg on September 25, 2011, he was bid farewell by Federal President Christian Wulff and started the return journey to Rome- Ciampino with the Lufthansa Airbus "Regensburg" (D-AIRT) .
Since 1995 the airfield in Lahr has been regulated as a NATO reserve airfield
Technical specifications
Lahr airfield has a 3000 m long runway with the pavement classification number PCN 100.
Incidents
From 1958 to 2012 there were eight aircraft accidents at Lahr airfield, six of them involving military aircraft. A total of two people were killed in the two accidents involving civil aircraft (2007 and 2012).
Use of the airport grounds for automobile sport events
Regio-Ring (1996 to 1998)
Organized by the ADAC Südbaden , from 1996 to 1998 the southern part of the airport site was used for a weekend as a temporary airfield course , i.e. as a motor sport racetrack in the form of a circuit , for corresponding automobile sport events.
Drag race "Rolling50 / 1000" (2015 to 2019)
Since 2015 the SCC500 (SuperCarClub 500) has been organizing the “Rolling50 / 1000” drag race on the grounds of Lahr Airport.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lahr airfield: the regional economy and the city pull together. badische-zeitung.de, accessed on July 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Lahr: The BFAL has filed for bankruptcy - badische-zeitung.de , February 1, 2013
- ↑ The moment of truth strikes for Lahr airfield. badische-zeitung.de, accessed on June 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Europapark / flight. Europa-Park, accessed June 29, 2011 .
- ↑ New hopes for an investor. badische-zeitung.de, accessed on June 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Lahr buys airfield for 3.4 million euros. badische-zeitung.de, accessed on July 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Operating company continues flight operations. badische-zeitung.de, accessed on July 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Lufthansa flies the Pope from Germany to Rome. airportzentrale.de from September 9, 2011
- ↑ Daniel Halter: Actors in the location conversion process: illustrated using the example of the former military airport Lahr / Black Forest . diplom.de, 2003, ISBN 978-3-8324-7432-4 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2020]).
- ↑ Lahr Airport accident statistics , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase , accessed on November 29, 2016.
- ↑ Drag races on the Lahr airfield. 77 Boliden im Temporausch , bo.de, from September 25, 2015
- ↑ A drag race, bz-ticket.de, starts on May 30, 2016 at the Lahr airfield
- ↑ Photos from the SCC500 drag race at Lahr Airport October 9, 2016 liteblox.de, accessed on December 17, 2016
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