Essen / Mülheim airfield
| Essen / Mülheim airfield | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | NOBLE |
| IATA code | ESS |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 129 m (423 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 8 km southwest of Essen, 5 km southeast of Mülheim an der Ruhr |
| Street | A 52 |
| Local transport | bus |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1925 |
| operator | Essen / Mülheim Airport GmbH |
| surface | 141 ha |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | approx. 33,000 (2007) |
| Flight movements |
46,237 (2012) |
| Employees | 16 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 06/24 | 1553 m × 45 m asphalt |
The airport Essen / Mülheim is a commercial airport in the southwest of the Ruhr . It is of national importance for professional pilot training and serves as the home base for several impact airships .
Location and connection
The airfield is on the border between Essen and Mülheim an der Ruhr , about eight kilometers southwest of Essen and about five kilometers southeast of Mülheim city center. The area covers 141 hectares.
The reception building is located near the Essen- Kettwig motorway junction on the A 52 . In addition, the 130 bus in the direction of Mülheim Hauptfriedhof or Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum and the Ruhrbahn TaxiBus T04 have a stop at the airport. The tram connection with the Mülheim city center was discontinued in 2012 from the main cemetery.
history
The area between the cities of Essen and Mülheim was approached by airplanes as early as 1919. On August 25, 1925, the square officially received its airport rights. In 1930 the first line connections from Essen / Mülheim to some European capitals were established. On August 16, 1931 the Zeppelin airship LZ 127 landed . The significant expansion in 1934 and 1935 led to the airport being expanded to become the central landing area of the Rheinisch-Westfälischen industrial area. As early as 1937, 5000 aircraft movements were counted in scheduled traffic and 15,000 passengers were carried. It was named Rhein-Ruhr-Flughafen in 1938 and was one of the first European airports with a paved runway. The Dusseldorf airport was also managed from here.
Ten days before the outbreak of the Second World War , a major flight day with several thousand visitors took place on August 20, 1939, the highlight of which was the landing of the airship LZ 130 "Graf Zeppelin II", the sister ship of the LZ 129 "which crashed in Lakehurst / USA in May 1937 " Hindenburg ”. In addition, modern civil and military aircraft models (including Fieseler Fi 156 "Storch", Focke-Wulf Fw 200 , Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka") were demonstrated at that time. With the beginning of the war, civil aviation came to an almost complete standstill. The German Lufthansa sat out the regular service and was limited to a need for air traffic. The III./JG 26 (III. Group of Jagdgeschwader 26) was stationed here from November 1939 to May 1940 . In preparation for the western campaign , the 4./JG 27 (4th squadron of Jagdgeschwader 27) and I. (Jagd) / LG 2 (I. (Jagd-) Gruppe of Lehrgeschwader 2) were added in April and May 1940 . From November 1944 to the end of December 1944, parts of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 (4th squadron with Messerschmitt Bf 110 ) were on this site. From January to March 1945 (some sources say since the end of 1944) the II. KG 51 (II. Group of the Kampfgeschwader 51) was here with its newly developed jet fighter of the Messerschmitt Me 262 type .
In June 1941, the Cologne Gestapo set up a so-called labor education camp at the airport, in which 135 prisoners were murdered by March 1945.
The airport facilities were badly damaged after the war. Military trucks that were no longer needed were initially parked on a large part of the site. Nevertheless, the Allies set up their repair airport here, as Essen / Mülheim, in contrast to Düsseldorf Airport, is mostly fog-free. During this time, Düsseldorf Airport was able to develop into the center of civil aviation in the Rhine-Ruhr area . It was not until 1950 that civil flight operations (gliding) were resumed in Essen / Mülheim. In 1959, the general aviation license was granted again, but the airport was never able to build on its international importance of the pre-war years. Between 1999 and 2013, Essen / Mülheim airfield had the status of a commercial airport .
Size and technology
The airfield has a 1553 meter long paved runway and is equipped with a lighting system. An unpaved glider strip is also used.
At the moment, only visual flight rules are used , instrument flight procedures do not exist. The airfield is classified in ICAO fire protection category 7 and maintains an appropriately equipped airfield fire brigade .
Ownership
Flughafen Essen Mülheim GmbH is the owner and operator of the airfield . The cities of Essen and Mülheim an der Ruhr are each half shareholders and therefore owners of Flughafen Essen Mülheim GmbH.
societies
The airfield is operated by the aerospace clubs “Luftfahrtverein Essen” and the “Aero-Club Mülheim an der Ruhr e. V. "used. In 2006, the Düsseldorf-based “Hanseatische Fliegerclub Düsseldorf e. V. "added.
Flight movements
The airfield is used for general aviation . Commercial flight operations essentially consist of business , charter and training flights . There are also ambulance, sport and glider flights. Every year around 43,000 aircraft movements take place, with around 33,000 passengers being transported.
There is currently no scheduled flight service . Although ad hoc charter traffic has been increasing since the mid-1990s, the airfield is primarily a school airport. Of the around 43,000 aircraft movements per year, around 20,000 take-offs and landings are carried out by commercial training flights . The airfield is of particular importance for the training of professional pilots . Every year around 220 pilots are trained by 45 flight instructors.
Established businesses
The WDL-Verwaltungs-Gesellschaft mbH has its headquarters at the Essen / Mülheim airfield . The distinctive feature of the airfield is the green airship hall in which the impact airships of the WDL Luftschiffgesellschaft mbH are manufactured. The maiden flight of the first WDL 1 airship took place in 1972. There are currently four airships in operation, which are regularly used for advertising by large companies around the world.
Training centers for pilots at the airport are the FFL Fachschule für Luftfahrzeugführer GmbH and the company TFC Flugbetrieb und -technik Beratungsgesellschaft mbH, which uses Essen / Mülheim Airport as the basis for its visual flight training.
Commercial flight operations with helicopters are carried out by AB Airflight GmbH, which operates a Robinson R44 and a Eurocopter AS 350 under the “Revierheli” brand .
The agency for flight experiences air4you.de has had its administrative headquarters in the main building of the airport since 2014 and sells various charter flights throughout Germany.
future
The future of the airfield is uncertain. On the one hand, the operating company would like to upgrade the place to a business airport that can also be used by jet aircraft , on the other hand, the co-partner City of Essen has decided to withdraw. The practice of only carrying out jet traffic on the basis of special permits was prohibited by the Münster Higher Administrative Court in July 2010. In order to permanently establish flight operations with jet aircraft in Essen / Mülheim, a change in the operating license would be required, for which there is currently no council majority. The mood in the parties is different, in some cases contradicting between the Essen and Mülheim branches of the same party.
On September 29, 2016, the city councils of Mülheim and Essen decided to maintain flight operations until the end of the lease with the WDL in 2024. In addition, both cities want to present plans for connection use by 2018. However, from a legal point of view, a complete cessation of flight operations is not possible before 2034, because only then will the lease with the Aeroclub Mülheim / Ruhr expire.
Due to the non-approval for microlight aircraft, the airfield remains closed to some private flight movements.
Plans to use the airfield as an event space for large music events failed in March 2018. A concert with musician Ed Sheeran and 80,000 expected visitors that was already planned for July 22, 2018 and sold out shortly after the start of ticket sales in July 2017 had to be relocated by the organizers to the grounds of Messe Düsseldorf after the environmental organization Naturschutzbund Deutschland e. V. (NABU) had threatened to file a lawsuit due to the impairment of a population of skylarks residing on the airfield site .
Incidents
- On February 8, 1988, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner III (D-CABB) crashed on the Nürnberger Flugdienst flight 108 coming from Hanover . The machine crashed on approach to Düsseldorf as a result of a lightning strike in the immediate vicinity of the Essen / Mülheim airfield. All 21 people on board were killed.
- On November 14, 2006, a Piper PA- 34-220T landed on the neighboring A52 . The twin-engine passenger aircraft coming from Berlin-Tempelhof Airport was approaching runway 25 at Essen-Mülheim Airport. A few minutes before the planned landing, the pilot radioed that he had to perform an emergency landing. After landing, the aircraft collided with a van and a car on the motorway. The pilot was slightly injured, the two passengers seriously.
- On August 5, 2008, a Piper PA- 28-181 aircraft from the Trier-Föhren airfield had to make an emergency landing with a destination in Essen after the engine first stuttered and then failed. The pilot was able to land the machine on a construction site in the city of Essen. Neither the pilot nor his three occupants were injured.
- On September 30, 2018, a single-seat glider crashed into the Messe Essen parking lot, which was in flight from the glider runway . According to witness statements, the 21-year-old student pilot, flying alone, practiced the side glide flight . He was killed in the process.
literature
- Reiner Eismann: Essen-Mülheim Airport . In: Witnesses of the city's history - architectural monuments and historical places in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Edited by the Mülheim an der Ruhr History Association. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, pp. 256–262.
- Frank Radzicki: 80 years of Essen / Mülheim Airport . Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2005, (illustrated book).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regional statistics 2007 ( Memento from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) of the Airport Association (ADV) (PDF; 26 kB)
- ^ Flughafen Essen-Mülheim GmbH - Flight movements. (No longer available online.) In: flughafen-essen-muelheim.com. Essen Mülheim Airport GmbH, archived from the original on March 25, 2013 ; accessed on July 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Flughafen Essen-Mülheim GmbH - About us. (No longer available online.) In: flughafen-essen-muelheim.com. Essen Mülheim Airport GmbH, archived from the original on March 25, 2013 ; accessed on July 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-1945 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp 168-170 , accessed on September 15, 2014
- ^ Decision of the OVG Münster
- ↑ Marcus Schymiczek: Essen / Mülheim Airport should remain until 2024 | WAZ.de. In: www.derwesten.de. Retrieved November 1, 2016 .
- ^ Association - Flugverein Aero-Club Mülheim an der Ruhr e. V. In: ac-mh.de. Retrieved November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Pilot information - Flughafen Essen-Mülheim GmbH. In: www.flughafen-essen-muelheim.com. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Ed Sheeran - Concert in July 2018 in Essen is sold out Report in July 2017 on the homepage of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
- ↑ Ed Sheeran moves concert to Düsseldorf Report in the daily newspaper Rheinische Post from March 3, 2018
- ^ Accident report Metro III D-CABB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 28, 2016.
- ↑ What a hissing sound . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein, Hamburg February 15, 1988, p. 107 f . ( available online ).
- ↑ Joseph Terhünte, Axel H. Wirth, Hermann Geng, Peter Schlegel (Commission of Inquiry) report on the investigation of the accident flight by plane SA 227-AC, Metro 111, D-CABB, on 8 February 1988 with Kettwig. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Aircraft Accident Investigation Center at the Federal Aviation Office, June 26, 1989, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved on December 12, 2017 (AZ 1 X 0001/88, the aircraft accident investigation center is the predecessor of today's BFU).
- ↑ Unsuccessful emergency landing - plane crashes on A 52. In: ntv.de. n-tv Nachrichtenfernsehen GmbH, November 24, 2006, accessed on October 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Investigation report 2X180 / 06. (PDF; approx. 308 kB) Federal Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, January 2007, accessed on October 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Brigitte an der Bruges: lack of fuel caused the aircraft to make an emergency landing. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung. Funke Medien NRW GmbH, December 19, 2008, accessed on October 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Investigation report 3X116 / 08. (PDF; approx. 18 kB) Federal Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, October 2008, accessed on October 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Helene Pawlitzki: Plane crash in Mülheim / Essen: glider crashes into parking lot - 1 dead. In: Rheinische Post. RP Digital GmbH, October 1, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2018 .
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