Finsterwalde / Schacksdorf airfield
| Lausitz airfield | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDUS |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 122 m (400 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 3 km southeast of Finsterwalde |
| Street | L62 |
| train | Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf |
| Basic data | |
| opening | Reopened in 1999 |
| operator | Economic development company Lausitzflugplatz Finsterwalde |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Runways | |
| 09/27 | 885 m × 40 m grass |
| 09/27 | 1200 m × 30 m concrete |
The Lausitz airfield Finsterwalde / Schacksdorf is a special airfield for general aviation and a former military airfield of the Luftwaffe of the Wehrmacht and the Soviet air force southeast of Finsterwalde in Brandenburg . It is used for company and business aviation, one of the largest hot rod races in Germany and the Niederlausitz trade fair take place here every year.
Approval and aircraft
The airfield is permitted for all helicopters , motor gliders , gliders , balloons and airships , regional transport and feeder aircraft up to 14,000 kg maximum take-off weight . Only aircraft up to 2,000 kg are allowed to land on the grass runway.
history
The airfield was opened in 1935 as Finsterwalde air base with the establishment of an air base command. From 1939 the FFS C Finsterwalde (pilot school) and from 1943 the LNS Halle / Saale ( air force communications school ) were stationed on it. The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1935 and 1945.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1935 | April 1939 | II./KG 153 (II. Gruppe des Kampfgeschwader 153) |
Junkers Ju 52 Dornier Do 23 Junkers Ju 86 Dornier Do 17 Z |
| May 1939 | May 1939 | II./KG 3 | Dornier Do 17 Z |
| February 1944 | September 1944 | I./KG 200 | |
| September 1944 | October 1944 | Staff, II./JG 300 (Staff and II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 300) | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A |
| September 1944 | September 1944 | II./JG 27 | Messerschmitt Bf 109 G |
| October 1944 | October 1944 | II./JG 5 | Messerschmitt Bf 109 G |
| October 1944 | November 1944 | IV./JG 4 | Messerschmitt Bf 109 G |
| January 1945 | January 1945 | Staff, II., III./SG 2 (Staff, II. And III. Group of Battle Squadron 2) | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A |
| January 1945 | February 1945 | I./JG 301 | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A Focke-Wulf Ta 152 H |
| February 1945 | April 1945 | III./TG 3 | Junkers Ju 52 |
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On April 21, 1945 the occupation by the Red Army took place , which took over the place including the German structure and used it until the withdrawal of the Soviet troops in 1993. The first expansion took place in 1951/52, including a paved runway, initially 2050 m in length. In the 1960s, the airfield was expanded, the runway was extended, aircraft coverings were built and the infrastructure was enlarged. Various slaughter and bombing units were stationed in Finsterwalde until 1956 . From then on, the 559th Fighter Bombing Regiment ( 16th Air Army ) became the main user. It flew mainly MiG-17 - and Su-7 - fighters - / fighter bomber . The conversion to MiG-27 took place later .
Presumably in 1962, the Finsterwalde special weapons storage facility for nuclear dropping ammunition was built on the airfield site. It essentially consisted of a two-story, monolithic basalt- type storage bunker . In May 1993 the Soviet troops handed the area over to the German authorities. In addition to the hangars and bunkers, the airfield was equipped with a swimming pool, train station, casino and fire station ; they were demolished. The hangars and the tower remained in the course of the renovation from 1999 to 2003.
The concrete runway was shortened from 2,400 to 1,200 meters during the renovation of the airfield.
Todays use
An air sports club and the aircraft yard Aircraft Maintenance & Consulting GmbH (AM&C) are located in individual hangars . It maintains and repairs aircraft up to 5000 kg and trains technicians on a decommissioned Transall C-160 , among other things . The Hardened Aircraft Shelters are partly unused or serve as storage rooms. In 2011, Air Tempelhof , among others, set up shop here, serving the Berlin-Dresden-Leipzig-Cottbus area with charter flights.
In addition to rentable office space, there is a flyer café in the tower. In addition to the hot rod meeting, the Niederlausitz trade fair for consumers takes place every year in September. There are also five-storey, almost uninhabited apartment blocks at the airport.
literature
- Stefan Büttner: Red places. Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994. Air bases – aerodromes – military fallow areas . Aerolit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 .
- Jürgen Zapf: Airfields of the Air Force 1934–1945 - and what was left of them. Volume 1: Berlin & Brandenburg . VDM , Zweibrücken 2001, ISBN 3-925480-52-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders). Pp. 177-179. accessed on September 15, 2014.
- ^ Soviet troops in Germany 1945 to 1994, memorial album, Moscow edition, «Junge Garde» publishing house, 1994, ISBN 5-235-02221-1 , p. 21.
- ↑ GSSD special weapons warehouse in Finsterwalde
- ↑ Finsterwalde special weapons warehouse, 2952 RTB WWS
- ↑ Finsterwalde takes off. on: lr-online.de , December 16, 2005.
- ↑ From Finsterwalde to the whole world. on: lr-online.de , December 14, 2011.
- ↑ Tower Café in a new look. on: lr-online.de , August 6, 2011.
- ↑ 18th Niederlausitz fair in Finsterwalde opened on Friday. on: lr-online.de , September 18, 2010.
- ↑ Niederlausitzmesse 2012. at: messen.de
