Siegerland Airport
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The winner Country Airport (IATA: SGE, ICAO: EDGS ) is a far south-southeast of Siegen situated at lip on the border of North Rhine -Westphalia and Rhineland -Palatinate airport.
He is classified as a commercial airport and with its 599 m above sea level. NN one of the most elevated airports in Germany. The airport was opened in 1967 and was in 2003 approximately 43,000 aircraft movements in 2005 there were about 36,500.
Airlines and destinations
2010, there are on the Siegerlandflughafen no scheduled flights. For medium-haul aircraft such as Boeing 737 or Airbus A320, the 1,620 m long runway is too short. The airport is used in addition to the business travel and for freight flight. The ADAC maintained until 2010 at the airport training center for its air rescue squadron.
Location and Transport
The Siegerlandflugfhafen is located in the northeast part of the Westerwald in the district of Siegen -Wittgenstein approximately 5 km ( straight line ) south of the core of the local community Burbach.
He is the southeast corner of North Rhine -Westphalia and in the extreme north-east of Rhineland -Palatinate, which he quite unusual is located in two provinces. A few kilometers east of the border is the state of Hesse. While the airport building and the start and runway are east of Burbach hamlet lip in North Rhine -Westphalia, parts of the hangars and a small part of the taxiways are located in the south-east adjacent municipality of Liebenscheid, part of the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. The Siegerlandfughafen is approximately 30 km south-southeast of Siegen, 120 km south-east of Dortmund, 110 km east-southeast of Cologne, and 110 km north- northwest of Frankfurt am Main. About the federal highway 54, which runs past the airport north to the A45 and south to the A 3 and directly west, he can be reached,
The former station at the airport is no longer operated, however, about 7-10 minutes walk away is the bus stop Burbach Customs House. This is several times during the day from the line L222, the Bürgerbus Burbach (BBB -3) as well as by individual rides the bus R24/R25. The lines all start in Burbach Post / Bf, making a reservation by Public Transport from Siegen / Cologne / Casting / Hagen is guaranteed.
History
The Siegerlandflughafen was opened by the North Rhine -Westphalian Minister President Heinz Kühn on the existing since the 1930 landing site in 1967. As a border crossing point for non-commercial air transport 1969, he was admitted.
In the 1960s emerged with the runway, Tower GAT and the foundations of today's airport. In autumn 1999, an instrument landing system (ILS CAT I) for arrivals was introduced in the operating direction 31.
In the 1980s and 1990s, some motor sport events, such as the German Touring Car Championship and the Beru Top 10 took place at the airport. The 3.4- km long racetrack was named winner Landring.
After the September 28, 2000 detonated a 500kg bomb from the Second World War, just below the start and runway and ripped a crater in the runway, the airport had to be closed for three weeks. A few days after the release of this was closed again by the country's aviation authority in Münster for 22 days; the bomb disposal determined by analysis of aerial photographs other suspected sites.
Regular scheduled service could not permanently establish themselves on the winner's country airport. In the late 1960s, the air service winner country was founded, its fleet consisted of at least a Cessna 401/402. Whether hereby scheduled flights from SGE were offered, has not yet been researched. In the 1990s, there was a line connection with Saxonia Airlines SAL to Leipzig and Dresden. Was flown with a rented Cessna 406 of the Cologne Air Transport or private Fairchild Metroliner as needed. This compound was later among others Kirberger Aviation 404 continued with Cessna. As of October 28, 2001 by the Mönchengladbach airline Rheinland Air Service (RAS RW) was offered a factory daily scheduled flight to Berlin -Tempelhof and weekly scheduled flight to the island of Sylt with the Avanti Air Beech 1900. The connection to Sylt was adjusted with the insolvency of the RAS, the scheduled flight to Berlin was by HahnAir / Southwest Flight ( HR) also continue to operate with the Avanti Air Beech 1900. After the Supervisory Board of Siegerlandflughafen GmbH has decided in 2003 that the district of Siegen -Wittgenstein is granted as main shareholder no further grants to the line connection, the line was discontinued at the end of the winter timetable on 28 March 2003. As a reason for the low utilization of the pressure of the low cost airlines is called from neighboring airports.
For the period of the soccer World Cup in 2006 it was used as a backup airport for charter flights; also landed the Czech national team here. The imaginary as start-up funding grants totaled since the first flight of around one million euros.
Operator
Operator of the airport is the winner Agriculture Airport GmbH. The operating and holding company of the Siegen -Wittgenstein mbH holds a 85.4 % stake in the company. It provides a control and profit is closed. (2009: € 998,649.87 ) In addition, the net loss is compensated by them.