Bremerhaven Airport

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The Bremerhaven Airport ( also airfield Bremerhaven - Luneort or regional airport Bremerhaven ) is a German airfield in Bremerhaven. It is located in the fishing harbor district on a small island in the south of the city between the harbor to the east, the Lune in the west and southwest, and the Weser in the north.

Primarily, the airfield is used for private transport. Is operated primarily the airfield by the airlines aviation Friesland Harle and OFD. During first connect to the airfield Wangerooge offers, OFD flies to Helgoland. There is also the possibility of demand flights with Air Hamburg. OFD and Air Hamburg fly in cooperation several times a week to Hamburg, Bremen and Westerland. This machine will be dependent on demand, like the Saab used 2000.

In addition, the Alfred Wegener Institute uses the airfield of Bremerhaven as a home base for his research aircraft POLAR 5 type Basler BT -67.

History

The aviation history at Luneort began in 1956 with sailing flights of Air Sports Association Lower Weser. In 1959 the airfield a license for Moto flights and was first used by the Aero Club Bremerhaven. Five years later the license was extended to include helicopter and in the same year was founded on 15 June, the airport operating company Bremerhaven mbH. In 1965, OLT was the first commercial airline, which was heading to the airport.

More recently, in September 1991 the expansion continued with the aim of moving towards a commercial regional airport at. In October 1992, a new runway of 920 meters in length, was put into operation and in August began with the construction of a new terminal building and a new control tower. The removed airfield was reopened on 21 July 1995. Until 2002, there was an extension of the take - off and landing runway 16/34 to the present length, the extension of operating time to 24 hours and also the approval of the airfield for night and instrument flying. After the plane crash in December 2001, the Fluggastzahen fell in scheduled air transport from 9000 in 2002 to five percent in 8400 in the following year. During the same period, the number of commercial takeoffs and landings, however, by six percentage rose to 6900.

In September 2011, decided to Bremerhaven city administration, the airfield in favor of offshore terminals (OTB ) to close the entire air operation is to move to the approximately 35 km northern military airfield Cuxhaven North Wood, the things to come for civil and military in mixed use. With the closure of the airfield, however, is not expected until 2014, " when the OTB becomes final plan established and implemented " ( quote from the decision ).

Incidents

• On December 26, 2001 fell a Britten- Norman BN -2B -26 Bremerhaven airline, which was started immediately before of runway 34 for a flight under visual flight rules ( VFR) with target Wangerooge, after a few hundred meters. Seven of the eight occupants died, only one woman was seriously injured rescued. After takeoff, the aircraft went before running on tarmac dike in a climb without, however, being able to record a significant gain in height. About the Weser it lost in a left turn in addition to height, tilted to the left away, touched with the left wing surface of the water and crashed into the upper Weser. In the final investigation report of February 2004, a lack of de-icing the wings was found to be the cause of the accident, which had the effect that the snow was deposited there has not been eliminated. He did not dissolve in the initial climb, which resulted in a disruption of the flow of the wing and the lift decreased.