Salzgitter-Schäferstuhl Airport

Salzgitter-Schäferstuhl Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EDVJ
Coordinates	52 ° 1 '44 "  N , 10 ° 22' 7"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '44 "  N , 10 ° 22' 7"  E
Height above MSL	226 m (741  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	13 km south of Salzgitter
Street
Basic data
operator	Luftsportgemeinschaft Schäferstuhl e. V.
Start-and runway
11/29	950 m × 50 m grass

The Salzgitter-Schäferstuhl Airfield is a special landing site near Salzgitter-Grid . It has a grass runway 950 meters long and 50 meters wide and is approved for gliders , motor gliders , microlights and powered aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of up to two tons.

history

The area at the Schäferstuhl was discovered for gliding operations in the early 1930s. Flight training has been carried out on the site since 1932. The Braunschweig-Waggum airport company acquired the site in September 1935 and by 1938 the buildings required for flight and school operations, such as the main building, hangar, workshops and garages, had been built. The gliding school passed into the possession of the National Socialist Fliegercorps (NSFK) in 1938 . Until the end of the Second World War , the school was used by group 9 (group Weser-Elbe) of the NSFK and the Flieger-HJ .

After the war, flight operations at the Schäferstuhl were not permitted again until 1952. At that time, the Aero Club Salzgitter had already been founded, the predecessor of today's Luftsportgemeinschaft Schäferstuhl e. V., which has been operating the airfield since then. Initially, the aviators only had a few dirt roads along and across the slope as runways. The first gorge to cut across the slope was filled in in 1959. It was not until the second transverse gorge was backfilled in 1966 and additional pieces of land were purchased that the airfield acquired its present size. The large hangar was built in 1979, in the same year the building for the flight control was completed on the plateau on the southwest edge of the field.

Web links

• Website of the Luftsportgemeinschaft Schäferstuhl e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AIP VFR, Deutsche Flugsicherung, 2018
2. ↑ Reinhard Försterling: Lattice - Twelve Centuries of History . Ed .: Archive of the city of Salzgitter and the village community grid. 1996, The Shepherd's Chair, p. 110-111 .
3. ↑ Heinz Charlett: Grid - Twelve Centuries of History . Ed .: Archive of the city of Salzgitter and the village community grid. 1996, Die Luftsportgemeinschaft Schäferstuhl, p. 457-460 .