Kiel Airport
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The airfield Kiel ( IATA: KEL, ICAO: EDHK, also referred to as Holtenau ) is an airfield in Kiel. He is classified as a commercial airport and is located 7 kilometers north of the city of Kiel.
Aerodrome Holtenau
The airfield was used by the military since its inception and was a base of naval aviation since 1958. Until mid-2012, here is the Naval Air Wing 5 (MFG 5) was stationed. It is known for search and rescue ( SAR), which were carried out by Holtenau with Sea King helicopters. In the second half of 2012 (June to November), the move of the squadron was held in the airbase north woods.
History
The airfield was built in 1914 on an area that had been leveled with the excavation of the North Sea-Baltic Canal. 1927 Kiel Airport Company ( KFG ) was set up, the land Kiel airport operation in the following years. It includes 27 national and international destinations were served. In 1937, the airport was converted into a military airfield, which was also used for civilian purposes, including by scheduled air service to Brunswick and Berlin -Tempelhof. 1963 took place an expansion of taxiways, in 1965 a first terminal building was built, were handled by the passengers of Pan Am from 1970 to 1973 to West Berlin. 1987, still operating terminal building was built. Thus, the regular service to Frankfurt was recorded simultaneously by Lufthansa, and later the cities Cologne / Bonn, Munich, Copenhagen, Kaliningrad and Riga were added. 1995 from the military airfield again a civilian, who was, however, continue concomitantly military. In 1997, the establishment of the civilian airfield was completed by a new tower, which was in contrast to the previous civil operated. In 2000, a new hangar was built and conducted an analysis of potential for the airport. Then began the plans for the expansion of the airport and the extension of the runway, however, were set in 2006 again in 2001.
In 2001 there was, including business aircraft, 31,000 aircraft movements to and from Kiel. Even then, the line connections were gradually phased out.
23 December 2005 to 2 May 2006, there was no line connections to / from Kiel.
From 2 May 2006 to end of October 2006 Cirrus Airlines flew a de Havilland Canada DHC -8 -100 flight to Munich. This machine was stationed with technicians and crew in Kiel, characterized 20 new jobs, according to the airline should arise. The line should be subsidized by the state for three years. Due to low passenger numbers the line operation in late October 2006 was reinstated.
Since the end of October 2006 There are no scheduled flights to / from Kiel.
Expansion plans
The expansion plans at the beginning of this century, mainly included the extension of the take - off and landing runway from 1300 to 2100 m in order to allow jet aircraft landing in Kiel. The B had 503 tunneled the new railway. In March 2002, the expansion was approved by the government of Schleswig -Holstein. Proponents of the expansion relied on the fact that the airport was very important for the region and that only as regional and business aviation is secure. It was also claimed that the expansion is economically and ecologically harmless.
The opponents of the expansion kept the realization of such a project to be unnecessary to achieve the desired results, the intra- German long-distance transport could also be implemented well with the existing connection to the ICE network. It makes sense as the expansion is mainly the connection of approximately 75 km ( straight line ) away Hamburg Airport to the railway and a link from there to Kiel. It has also been called into question that the airport, which should be limited to regular services, after the costly expansion is viable. They feared that an intensive introduction to the charter flights would be needed to operate the airport profitably. The protest was also supported by the municipality of Old wood that would have been affected by Holtenau itself most from the increased aircraft noise.
After the end of 2005, the last flight line had been discontinued, the Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Economy oyster man decided on 24 January 2006 that the plans were " placed permanently on file ."
Presence
At the airport, Kiel Luftsportverein Kiel eV established an association for the practice of air sports with different types of aircraft, the Academic Flying Group, Christian- Albrechts -University of Kiel, which operates glider, the charter carrier FLM Aviation, a helicopter service as well as an aircraft maintenance facility. Furthermore ambulance flights and air traffic for the target representation Bundeswehr Holtenau be settled. In addition, the International Air Days are held annually in May in which aerobatics, gliding performances and parachute jumps performed and historic aircraft will be on display.
Accidents
On February 15, 2006 was forced to land a private plane coming from Russia on the airfield Kiel. A flight attendant had accidentally ignited on board a smoke cartridge, which caused a fire with heavy smoke. The machine type Dassault Falcon 20 skidded off the runway while also down an embankment. The pilot later testified that he had an indication of the runway length on radio misunderstood. Three passengers and three crew members were injured, one seriously. The first aid was very quick to help, as the fire brigade squadron of the adjacent Naval Air Wing 5 is a few hundred meters away from the accident and is disengaged immediately. For the " rescue of the occupants of the aircraft under life-threatening " received two firefighters of the Kiel airfield later, the Lifesaving Medal of Schleswig- Holstein.