Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport
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The Egelsbach Airport is a German airfield near Frankfurt Airport. He is classified as a commercial airport and is located on 117 m above sea level. NN on boundaries of the municipalities Egelsbach and Erzhausen and is located in the Rhine -Main area between the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach am Main and Darmstadt.
There was only a grass takeoff and landing area, later a fixed grass runway to start. In 1956, 37,000 aircraft movements were already recorded, so that in 1966 a paved airstrip was built to handle about 100,000 movements per year can. In the 1970s, the number of flight movements rose to over 126,000.
Today, the airfield represents a growing commercial area with around 25 companies and about 700 employees and serves as the basis of police helicopters of the Hessian police, numerous air carriers and aviation affine operations, flight schools and clubs.
On 3 July 2004, the extension of the asphalt airstrip around 410 m to 1,400 m was put into operation after 15 months of construction. She was required due to changed European luftverkehrlicher provisions to maintain the commercial operation of aircraft up to 20 tonnes. For the extension had the stream of Hegbachs in which the protected species bullhead lives, be extended by 700 meters ( in the photo recognizable). A federal lawsuit for Environment and Nature Conservation Germany ( BUND) against the construction was also dismissed as objections of local citizens clubs from the surrounding communities as Erzhausen.
Due to the strong increase in flight movements with fast-flying aircraft (High Performance Aircraft - HPA ) of 2004, the traffic mix of fast and slow aircraft had to be rectified in order to continue to ensure safety and smooth traffic flow. Since March 2008, the airfield is the only in Germany via separate Sichtan and departure procedures for fast and slow aircraft.
In March 2009, the company NetJets, which belongs to the holding company Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett, 80 percent of the shares of the Hessian airfield GmbH Egelsbach acquired by the former owners holding company of the Offenbach district ( 39.22 % stake ) and Stadtwerke Offenbach ( 33.44 % ) and Stadtwerke Langen (6.88 %). The community of Egelsbach ( 11.02% ) and the city of Langen ( 9.44% ) were not allowed to sell due to ongoing public petition and after a decision of the Hessian Administrative Court in Kassel. On 27 September 2009 referendums were held in these two communities, in each of which a majority of voters who opposed the sale. After four sided disputed by NetJets capital increases, the local shares fell to 12.27 percent along ( Egelsbach 6.61 percent, 5.66 percent Langen ).
NetJets plans to start and runway to extend by a further 270 meters to allow an instrument flight operations.