Peenemünde Airport
| Special landing site Peenemünde | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDCP |
| IATA code | PEF |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 2 m (7 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 3 km north of Peenemünde |
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| Basic data | |
| opening | April 1, 1938 |
| operator | Usedomer Fluggesellschaft mbH |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 13/31 | 2400 m × 60 m concrete |
The Peenemünde airfield is a special airfield located north of Peenemünde . It went into operation on April 1, 1938 as an airfield for the aircraft developed by the " Peenemünde-West Air Force Test Center " and has a concrete runway.
history
The construction work on the airfield took place in 1935/36. As part of the test site, radio-controlled weapons, rocket planes and start-up missiles were tested on the premises during the Second World War . The launch sites for the Fieseler Fi 103 test (V1) were located on the northeastern edge of the airfield . He also regularly started reconnaissance flights after the start of the A4 (V2) in order to locate the point of impact.
At the end of the war, the airfield damaged by Anglo-American air raids was occupied by the Soviet Army on May 4, 1945 and initially deactivated. By 1947 the machinery was moved to the Soviet Union and the facilities were blown up. In 1949 the area was made usable again, wooden buildings were erected and fighter and naval fighter units equipped with Jak-3 , Jak-9 (until 1951), MiG-15 and MiG-17 (until 1960) were stationed. The staff was quartered in Karlshagen .
After construction work carried out from 1960, u. a. the 1800-meter-long runway was repaired and built a ring runway of the airfield in the following year was to the Jagdfliegergeschwader 9 of NVA passed, which took him to the 1990th Among other things, Soviet MiG-23 swing-wing fighters were stationed in Peenemünde . In 1965, the concrete runway, which was oriented in a north-westerly direction, was extended by 300 meters so that modern jet fighters could now be used . The runway, which was oriented from east to west, was shut down during the same period. A special feature were the radio beacons at the northwestern end , which were built on artificial islands in the sea. In 1967 there was a further expansion through the construction of splinter protection boxes and flak positions. From 1972 the target display chain 33 equipped with IL-28 , after having been stationed briefly in Peenemünde in 1961, used the space together with the JG-9. In 1985 the runway was extended for the last time to a total of 2,400 meters. In 1989 the place had a radio beacon RSBN . Two non-directional radio beacons (GDR terminology: long-distance radio beacon , local radio beacon ) and the PRMG landing system were available in each of the two approaches . There was also a panoramic radar and a precision approach radar . The military call sign was NARCOSIS.
After the fall of the Wall , the airfield was used, among other things, as a parking space for former NVA military vehicles. Today, sightseeing flights with small planes take place from the Peenemünde airfield. In addition, bus tours are carried out, during which one can visit the former bunkers of the NVA and the remains of the launching ramps of the V1.
Current usage
The airfield is also the location of flight schools . Since summer 2010, a jet trainer of the former NVA has been stationed on Peenemünde with the Aero L-39 Albatros . The L-39 was the standard trainer of the Eastern Bloc, but was used in Peenemünde from 1982 in the versions L-39ZO and L-39V as a target tug plane.
literature
- Thomas Bussmann: Reinforced concrete, grass and railway lighting . The military airfields of the GDR. MediaScript, Cottbus, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814822-0-1 .
- Manfred Kanetzki: MiGs over Peenemünde . The history of the NVA air force units on Usedom. 2nd Edition. MediaScript, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814822-1-8 .
Web links
- Literature about Peenemünde airfield in the state bibliography MV
- Radio towers in the Greifswalder Bodden on LostAreas
- Airport information
- Airfield website
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Büttner: Red places: Russian military airfields in Germany 1945-1994. Aerolit, first edition, June 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 . P. 93
- ↑ Martin Kaule: Peenemünde - From the missile center to the monument landscape. Ch. Links-Verlag, first edition, January 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-764-9 . P. 33
- ↑ Directory 012 - Flight navigation information for the airfields of the NVA and the border troops of the GDR Command of the Air Force and Air Defense 1989 (Secret classified document C1 184 400)
- ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung : New program brings personal limits ( memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) from October 1, 2010 (accessed on May 20, 2011)
- ↑ Wilfried Copenhagen: The air forces of the NVA. Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02235-4 . P. 66
