Siegerland Airport
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EDGS | ||
| IATA code | SGE | ||
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| Height above MSL | 599 m (1965 ft ) | ||
| Transport links | |||
| Distance from the city center | 30 km from Siegen | ||
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| train | formerly Scheuerfeld – Emmerzhausen | ||
| Local transport | L 222; BBB3; R24; R25 ( VGWS ) | ||
| Basic data | |||
| opening | 1967 | ||
| operator | Siegerland Airport GmbH | ||
| Flight movements |
25,000 | ||
| Employees | 22 (at the operator, 2009) | ||
| Runways | |||
| 04/22 | 500 m × 30 m grass | ||
| 13/31 | 1620 m × 30 m asphalt | ||
| 13/31 | 600 m × 30 m grass | ||
The Siegerlandflughafen ( IATA : SGE , ICAO : EDGS ) is a far south-southeast of victories in lip on the border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate situated airfield . It is classified as a commercial airport and at 599 m above sea level. NN one of the highest situated commercial airports in Germany. The airport opened in 1967 and had around 43,000 flight movements in 2003, compared with around 36,500 in 2005.
Current operation
In 2019 there were no scheduled flights at Siegerland Airfield . For medium- haul aircraft such as the Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 , the 1620-meter runway is too short under certain conditions such as high temperatures or take-off weights. In addition to business travel, the airport is also used for cargo flights or ambulance flights. The ADAC maintained the training center for its air rescue team at the airport until 2010 , but continues to use the airport as a training facility today.
In addition, Avanti Air and Air Alliance Express located at the airport Siegerland, the latter offers charter flights.
Everyday operation is dominated on weekdays by Air Alliance jets and ADAC training flights. The local flight school for private pilots or the helicopter flight school also trains daily. On weekends, more and more private pilots and the local clubs like the glider club VfF Geisweid or the LSV Hellerthal fly.
Location and transport links
The airport is located in a transition area between Siegerland and Westerwald in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district about 5 km (as the crow flies ) south of the core town of Burbach .
It is located in the extreme south-east of North Rhine-Westphalia and in the extreme north-east of Rhineland-Palatinate, making it one of the few airports whose premises extend over two federal states. However, the airport reference point with the entire runway is on North Rhine-Westphalia territory, which means it is assigned to this federal state under aviation law. The border to the federal state of Hesse , or to the triangle of the three federal states mentioned, runs three kilometers to the southeast . While the airport buildings and the runway are to the east of the Burbach district of Lippe in North Rhine-Westphalia, parts of the hangars and a small part of the taxiway are located in the neighboring municipality of Liebenscheid , which is part of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate. Siegerland Airport is located around 30 km south-south-east of Siegen , 120 km south-east of Dortmund , 110 km east-south-east of Cologne and 110 km north-north-west of Frankfurt am Main . It can be reached via the federal highway 54 , which leads north to the A 45 and south to the A 3 and directly west of the airport. The end of the Scheuerfeld – Emmerzhausen railway used to lead to the airfield.
The former bus stop at the airport is no longer served, but the Burbach Zollhaus stop is approx. 7-10 minutes' walk away . This is reached several times a day by the L222, the Bürgerbus Burbach (BBB-3) and by occasional trips on the R24 / R25 bus routes. The lines all start in Burbach Post / Bf , which means that you can travel by public transport from Siegen / Cologne / Gießen / Hagen .
history
Siegerland Airport was opened in 1967 by the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Heinz Kühn on the landing site that has existed since the 1930s. It was approved as a border crossing point for non-commercial air traffic in 1969.
In the 1960s, the foundations of today's airport were created with the runway, tower and GAT . In autumn 1999 an all-weather flight operation level (ILS CAT I) was introduced in operation direction 31.
In the 1980s and 1990s, several motorsport events , such as the German Touring Car Championship and the Beru Top 10, took place on the airport grounds. The 3.4 km long race track was called the Siegerlandring .
After a 500 kg bomb from the Second World War detonated directly under the runway on September 28, 2000 and tore a crater in the runway, the airport had to be closed for three weeks. A few days after it was released, the State Aviation Authority in Münster closed it again for 22 days; After evaluating aerial photographs, the ordnance disposal service identified further suspect points.
Regular scheduled services could not establish themselves permanently at the airport. In the late 1960s, Flugdienst Siegerland was founded, whose fleet consisted of at least one Cessna 401/402. It has not yet been possible to research whether scheduled flights from SGE were offered. In the 1990s there was a scheduled connection with Saxonia Airlines-SAL to Leipzig and Dresden. A rented Cessna 406 from Cologne Air Transport or an own Fairchild Metroliner was flown as required. This connection was later made by Kirberger Aviation u. a. continued with Cessna 404. From October 28, 2001, the Mönchengladbach airline Rheinland Air Service-RAS (RW) offered a weekday scheduled flight to Berlin-Tempelhof and a weekly scheduled flight to Sylt with Beech 1900 operated by Avanti Air. The connection to Sylt was discontinued with the insolvency of RAS, the line connection to Berlin was continued by HahnAir / Südwestflug (HR) also with Avanti Air's Beech 1900. After the supervisory board of Siegerland Flughafen GmbH decided in 2003 that the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, as the main shareholder, would not grant any further subsidies for the line connection, the line was discontinued on March 28, 2003 when the winter flight schedule expired. Pressure from low-cost airlines from neighboring airports is cited as the cause of the low capacity utilization . The subsidies, intended as start-up financing, have amounted to around one million euros since the first flight.
For the time of the soccer world championship in 2006 it was used as an auxiliary airport for charter flights; the Czech national football team also landed here.
operator
The airport is operated by Siegerland-Flughafen GmbH. The operating and holding company of the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein mbH holds 85.4% of the company. A control and profit transfer agreement has been concluded with her . It also compensates for the annual deficit (2009: € 998,649.87).
See also
Web links
- siegerland-airport.de The Siegerland commercial airport
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ihk-siegen.de/standortpolitik/Verkehr_Inf starts / Luftverkehr/ 2390834
- ↑ a b Siegerland-Flughafen GmbH: Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2009. May 27, 2010.
- ↑ Siegener Zeitung: New Hall F should »set a signal« . Siegen, July 11, 2003.
- ↑ Westfalenpost: Zeitzeichen. Local section Siegen, January 5, 2008.
- ^ Bomb explosion at Siegerland Airport. THW Siegen, September 28, 2000, accessed on January 17, 2011 (short report with pictures).
- ↑ rp-online.de: Again flight ban - suspected bombs at Siegerland airport ( page can no longer be accessed , 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. . October 23, 2000. Retrieved February 6, 2008.
- ↑ Radio Siegen: 57 currently. Weekly review for Siegerland and Wittgenstein. November 12, 2000, Retrieved: February 6, 2008 ( Memento of March 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Siegener Zeitung: From Siegerland you will fly to Berlin. Siegen, January 24, 2002.
- ^ Siegener Zeitung: The end of the Berlin airline. Supervisory board stops the subsidies from the district treasury / competition from low-cost airlines too big. Siegen, February 6, 2003.
