Emden Airport
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The airfield Emden is a commercial airport in the north of the city of Emden ( Ostfriesland).
He is classified as a commercial airfield and approved for aircraft up to 14 tonnes. The airstrip is 1,300 meters long and 30 meters wide. Based on the available navigation aids (NDB and DME ) and the appropriate instrument approach lighting also night and bad weather approaches are possible.
Airlines and destinations
The OFD Ostfriesischer Flugdienststfriesische Lufttransport GmbH flies to all the East Frisian Islands. Consist of up to five trips a day alone to Borkum to the local airfield. In addition, the airport has a great importance for business of local companies, in particular Volkswagen. The airport serves the Volkswagen plant in Emden with piece goods in transit. He also used to supply offshore wind farms.
The latter destinations have led to an increase in air traffic in 2009. The number of commercial flights increased by 16.4 percent to 7043rd these were only 3768 helicopter flights to the wind farms at sea. The total number of flights was 9402nd
Operator
The airport is operated by the aerodrome Emden GmbH, a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Emden ( SWE) and ultimately the city of Emden itself, the sole stockholder of the SWE is. Any losses contribute Stadtwerke (and thus the city) who understand the airfield as part of the necessary infrastructure.
Directions and environment
The airport is conveniently located five kilometers northeast of the city center of Emden on the A 31, exit Emden Center. The Emden Airport has teamed up with other, equally large airfields in Germany as a working group, whose aim is to promote the establishment of businesses in the vicinity of aerodromes. In the immediate vicinity of the Emden airfield is a commercial area, extensive industrial areas ( with surface potential ) are a short drive away.
Accidents
On 8 February 2011 had to make an emergency landing on the airfield Emden a Britten Norman Islander (D - Iolo ) of the East Frisian Lufttransport (OLT ). The machine had been at the start of Borkum suspension problems and declared an air emergency. A little later, could make an emergency landing the machine on a foam carpet the pilot. Both the pilot, and the eight passengers were unharmed.