Black Forest Airport
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The Black Forest Airport (translated Black Forest Airport ) is a German airport in Lahr Baden, near the French border. He is classified as a special airport status with special cargo airport. The operating company has filed bankruptcy on January 31, 2013.
Airlines and destinations
The Black Forest Airport has since 16 June 2006, a limited passenger flight license as a shuttle for guests of the Europa Park in Rust.
Status
Airfield for airplanes and helicopters up to 20 tons. MTOM (maximum take off mass ). Air services by aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight is about 25 tons, the authorization according to § 25 LuftVG require by the regional council of Freiburg ( granted, depending on the occasion ). Cargo flights can be handled without weight restrictions. The Black Forest Airport Lahr has requested the customs status, as well as going through the border inspection post for food imports, the approval process.
Approach
The airport is located directly on the main highway 5, junction Lahr ( 56), and two kilometers west of Lahr. After Karlsruhe is 100 km, 48 km to Freiburg, Strasbourg 37 km.
History
The airport has an eventful history behind it and one of the oldest airfields in Germany. Its history dates back to the time of the First World War, when a Jagdeinsitzerstaffel was stationed here and a Zeppelin hangar for airships of the army had been built.
The airfield was Lahr from 1945 under the command of the French occupying power. In 1952 the airfield Lahr NATO military airfield for military jets under French command. After France had withdrawn from NATO in 1966, Lahr was the seat of the European headquarters of the Canadian NATO forces. 1968 Lahr was the site of the NATO Tiger Meet.
Already in 1989 the Lufthansa with the then newly launched Boeing 747-430 regular training flights in Lahr through.
Even before the complete withdrawal of Canadians from Lahr Lahr airport GmbH was founded in 1991. Flight operations rested, however, after the withdrawal of Canadian forces completely, much of the aeronautical infrastructure ( for example, the approach lighting and NDB ) has been dismantled or fell to vandalism, and the place had no air traffic legal operating license. Only since the second half of the 1990s the facilities were used again as a commercial airfield.
From this point Lahr was included in the overnight airmail network of Deutsche Post AG and the German Lufthansa introduced in this period, regular mail flights with Boeing 737-330. In addition, quite often flights with aircraft Antonov An-124 carried out to transport parts of tunnel boring machines based in nearby Herrenknecht without consuming land transport to their destination.
The successor company Black Forest Airport Lahr GmbH is since the spring of 2001 to 99 percent in the hands of private investors ( Wiggins Group, later renamed Plane Station Group, England). The remaining percentage is one of the original shareholders from investment company.
In July 2005, the GmbH shares were following the insolvency of Plane Station Group, acquired by the airport operator Airports Churchill, a subsidiary of Babcock & Brown Investment Group.
In November 2002, the Black Forest Airport Lahr GmbH had filed for Wiggins subsidiary a license to operate a commercial airport, which was refused by the government of Freiburg and the former Baden-Württemberg state government.
In January 2006, the operating company Churchill Airports and Babcock & Brown had applied for a limited passenger flight license that has been approved by the government of Freiburg on 16 June 2006.
From then allowed the Black Forest Airport act as an exclusive feeder airport for Europa- Park Rust. The action for an unlimited license to the Federal Administrative Court was subsequently withdrawn. The first machine with guests of the Europa Park landed on 28 October 2006, an Airbus A320 of Air Berlin on the Lahr airport. 2010 Europa Park flights were set to and from Lahr lack of demand again. Since 2010 the airport Karlsruhe / Baden -Baden acts as a feeder airport for Europa Park.
Since April 29, 2011, the Federal Agency for Real Estate (BImA ) offers the airfield for sale. The total flight operations area of 210 acres is for sale. Parallel to the sale of the airfield area to the existing aviation laws and permits are mitveräußert the future owners.
The airport is frequently used because of its aeronautical infrastructure for government flights, in April 2009, for example, during the NATO summit. Occasion of his visit to Germany, Pope Benedict XVI landed. on 24 September 2011 with an A340- 313X Air Force (16 01) on the airfield Lahr, where he was welcomed by the Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann Prime Minister. Then the Pope on the A5 went on to Freiburg. After his return from Freiburg 25 September 2011 he was adopted by German President Christian Wulff and entered the return journey to Rome Ciampino with the Lufthansa Airbus " Regensburg " ( D AIRT ) to.
Specifications
Although the airfield Lahr has a concrete surface with 3525 m length, but these are only 3000 m reported as usable runway. This has a load capacity classification Pavement Classification Number PCN 100