Schwaighofen airfield
| Schwaighofen Air Base Neu-Ulm Air Base / Schwaighofen Ulm Army Airfield |
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EDOE (1971) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 472 m (1549 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 4 km southeast of Ulm | ||
| Street | State road 2029 approx. 1 km to 
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| train | Railway line Neu-Ulm – Kempten | ||
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| opening | 1930 | ||
| closure | 1997 | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 09/27 (1971) | 610 m × 30 m grass | ||
The airfield Schwaighofen is a former military and civilian airfield. The airfield was southeast of Neu-Ulm . The runway was located south of Von-Liebig-Strasse, roughly between today's mail distribution center in the east and Lise-Meitner-Ring in the west.
history
German use until 1945
The flying use of the Schwaighofen airfield, which spanned a period of almost 70 years, began in the summer of 1930 when an emergency landing site was set up here. The first flight day took place here in the same year.
In the course of the German armament in the run-up to the Second World War , the Luftwaffe, which had been officially set up two years earlier, took over the airfield , which had previously been used for civilian purposes.
As a result, they built him an air base of II. Order. Both barracks directly on the airport area and buildings on the Reinhardt barracks (now the police and tax office), which were built at the same time towards the city, served as troop accommodation at the Neu-Ulm / Schwaighofen air base . Military flight operations began in autumn 1939. At first, the space was only used occasionally by various combat squadrons. In May 1940 the He 111P of the II. Group of Kampfgeschwader 55 (II./KG 55) arrived here and flew three weeks of attacks over France from Neu-Ulm as part of the Wehrmacht's western campaign .
In the following years Schwaighofen was mainly used for flight training by pilot and air warfare schools. In the second half of July 1944, the Fw 190A equipped IV. Group of Jagdgeschwader 3 (IV./JG 3) was stationed as a task force in Neu-Ulm for ten days and in September 1944 the airfield was the target of heavy Allied air raids. In the last weeks of the war, Fw 190 fighter-bombers of the 11th squadron of battle squadron 151 (11./SG151) were again lying here from March to mid-April 1945 .
Use by the US armed forces after 1945
The airfield was designated as Ulm Army Airfield by the United States Army from 1951 to 1983 . The US Army reactivated the airfield in the spring of 1952 and used it primarily for the use of helicopters.
Civil use
Local air sports clubs were later allowed to use the area.
In 1997, the decision was made to close the airfield and therefore air sports had to cease.