Speicherersdorf airfield
| Speicherersdorf Airfield Rosenthal Airfield | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EDQP | ||
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| Height above MSL | 456 m (1496 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 1 km south of Speichersdorf, 17 km south-east of Bayreuth |
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| train | Kirchenlaibach | ||
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| opening | 1970 | ||
| operator | Flying school and flight operations Strössenreuther | ||
| Terminals | 1 | ||
| Passengers | no | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 09/27 | 800 m × 50 m grass with asphalt strips (750) 650 × 20 m | ||
The airfield Speichersdorf or Rosenthal Airfield-Plössen is the airport of the Upper Franconian municipality Speichersdorf in the district of Bayreuth . It is operated by the Fliegerschule und Flugbetrieb Strössenreuther GmbH .
geography
The airfield is located 1.5 kilometers south of the historic center of Speichersdorf near the Plössen district in the Gereut parcel at an altitude of 454 to 457 m above sea level. NN . In terms of nature, it is located in the headwaters of the Haidenaab , to the west the terrain rises to Franconian Switzerland , to the east to the Fichtel Mountains . The state border with the Czech Republic runs 40 km to the east .
The runway of the airfield borders at right angles on a local road to the west. For this reason, a traffic light shows whether an aircraft is approaching for landing.
history
The airfield was actually designed for military training during World War II . Mainly bomber pilots were trained there. After the occupation by Allied troops in April 1945 , the Germans were initially banned from flying. After the flight ban was lifted in 1951, civil aviation on the grass runway started moving again and in 1964 Manfred Strossenreuther founded the flying school that still exists there today.
The airfield in its present form was not built until 1970 when the asphalt runway, the tower and the hangar were built. On April 4, 1980, the airfield was the starting and ending point of a spectacular escape aid campaign . Two US pilots flew in a Jet Ranger helicopter over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia , where they took in a family from the GDR with two children and brought them to the West .
The Speicherersdorf airfield, also known as Rosenthal Airfield, became known nationwide thanks to Manfred Strossenreuther's flying skills, who also won European and world championship titles. The name Rosenthal Airfield comes from the porcelain factory that Philip Rosenthal founded in Speichersdorf. Speicherersdorf has also been an ultra-light airfield since 1985.
Airfield and equipment
The airfield is a special airfield for all types of aircraft up to 4000 kg maximum take-off weight (MTOW), helicopters up to 5700 kg and mostly in operation from 9 a.m. to sunset. During the remaining times, landing is only possible after prior notification ( PPR ). The place carries the ICAO identification EDQP.
There are currently no scheduled or charter flights at the airport, which is used for general aviation. Private pilots land and take off there and there is a flight school, the parachuting group Speicherersdorf e. V. as well as aerobatics resident.
There is a commercial and workshop building with a tower (frequency 127.450 MHz), a helipad , several hangars and a restaurant as well as a petrol station with an oil service.
Incidents
There have been several fatal accidents on and around the airfield, in which a total of seven people have died so far:
- Aerobatic world champion Manfred Strossenreuther collided on March 29, 1986 while approaching another aircraft. Strossenreuther and three other people were killed.
- On August 7, 1988, a North American AT 6 aircraft crashed into a residential building during an aerobatic exercise. The pilot died and two residents were injured.
- Towards the evening of October 20, 2012, a single-engine Mooney M 20 plane crashed - presumably during the landing approach - right next to a street near the Roslas district. Both inmates were killed.
traffic
- The airfield is connected to the state road St 2184 and the federal road 22 via local roads.
- The public transport do not operate the airfield directly, but can on foot ten minutes remote station Kirchenlaibach be boarded to several railway lines.
Web links
- Information page about the airfield
- Aviation map for Rosenthal Airfield-Plössen on SkyVector.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ EDQP at BayernAtlas
- ↑ Peter Engelbrecht: Exchange mower for woman. Reports from Upper Franconia . 2nd Edition. Boomerang, Bayreuth 2004, ISBN 3-929268-18-3 , p. 48 ff .
- ↑ EDQP at airports.de ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b EDQP at Oberpfalz-luftbild.de
- ↑ a b Nordbayerischer Kurier of October 23, 2012, p. 21
- ↑ Nordbayerischer Kurier of October 22, 2012, p. 5
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