Osnabrück-Atterheide airfield

Osnabrück-Atterheide
Characteristics
ICAO code	EDWO
Coordinates	52 ° 17 '12 "  N , 7 ° 58' 11"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '12 "  N , 7 ° 58' 11"  E
Height above MSL	87 m (285  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	1.5 km south-east of Atter town center, 6 km north-west of Osnabrück city ​​center
Street	To airfield 83
Local transport	City bus route 21
Basic data
opening	1959
operator	Aero Club Osnabrück e. V.
Flight movements	10,000 a year
Employees	1
Start-and runway
09/27	800 m × 20 m asphalt

The airfield Atterheide is an airfield in Osnabrück district Atter a short distance from Lower Saxony - North Rhine-Westphalia state border.

history

As early as 1912, the aerobatic pilot Gustav Tweer and other Osnabrück aviation pioneers were allowed to use Atterheide for flight operations. From the mid-1920s, Atterheide was used by glider pilots from the Osnabrück Aviation Association (OVfL), as the main airfield in Osnabrück at that time in the Netter Heide was not suitable for take-offs by gliders. The starts took place on a slightly sloping slope towards the south. In 1932 the engineer Reinhold Tiling held a flight day here to present his self-developed rockets with an audience of 4,000. After the airfield in Haste was closed in 1935, the use of the airfield in Atter by gliders and model pilots increased. From 1938 onwards, no flight operations are known to exist in Atterheide.

When, after the Second World War, civil powered flight operations were permitted in Germany again from 1955, 28 enthusiastic powered pilots founded the Osnabrück Aero Club in December 1955 . Initially, the airfield in Vörden near Bramsche was used. However, since this was to be used for military purposes from 1959, the Aero Club turned to the Atterheide. The area could be leased from the noble Ostman von der Leye family , who lived in the nearby Gut Leye . When the area was cleared and leveled, the first test take-offs and landings with powered aircraft took place in the Atterheide in 1958. After approval in January 1959, the airfield was officially opened on April 25, 1959.

In the first few years, flight operations were carried out with simple means: the 500-meter-long landing runway running in a west-east direction had a grass surface and the air traffic control and aero club were located in a wooden hut. In the 1960s, up to 40,000 visitors came to the major flight days with aerobatics , parachute jumpers and even touch-and-go maneuvers by jet planes . The airfield facility was further expanded by the club members themselves, without public funding. After the construction of the first hangars, the runway was extended to 800 meters and paved in 1980. The tower was opened in 1986, followed by a new clubhouse in 1990.

investment

The paved runway runs in an east-west direction (90 ° / 270 °) and is 800 meters long. In addition to a flight school, the airfield also houses a restaurant. In the airfield is a so-called airfield , d. In other words , there is a full-time officer for air traffic control . The airfield can be approached year-round by aircraft up to 5.7 t gross vehicle weight and helicopters. Between 9,000 and 11,000 flight movements take place over the course of a year.

gallery

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  Colomban MC-15 at Osnabrück-Atterheide airfield

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  Runway

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historie , atterheide.de, accessed on May 26, 2020.
2. ↑ Atterheide airfield in Osnabrück has existed for 60 years , noz.de, May 14, 2019, accessed on May 26, 2020.
3. ↑ Space data of the airfield  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

Commons : Flugplatz Osnabrück-Atterheide  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Airfield website