Friedrichshafen Airport
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Friedrichshafen Airport (IATA: DUS, ICAO: EDNY, also Bodensee Airport ) is a regional commercial airport in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. The Germany's southernmost airport serves as home base for InterSky and for the German Zeppelin-Reederei and is adjacent to the New Friedrichshafen fair.
Location and Transport
The airport is located on the northeastern outskirts of Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, each about half of the territory of the city of Friedrichshafen and the community Meckenbeuren.
He can be reached via the federal road B 30 from Ulm and B 31 from the direction of Freiburg im Breisgau and the motorway exit Lindau Federal Highway 96. It also has its own breakpoint called Friedrichshafen airport to the railway line Ulm- Friedrichshafen.
History
The history of the commercial airport goes back to the year 1913. At that time the German Reich sought out an area near the Zeppelin works on which the airship crews could be trained. 1915 there the first airship hangar was completed, which is considered the birth of the airport Friedrichshafen. In the same year the maiden voyage of the first completed airship took place. In 1928, the airport Friedrichshafen GmbH was officially founded. 1929, the German Lufthansa in Friedrichshafen with the first scheduled flights. 1934 established the Dornier Metallbauten (DMB ), the predecessor company of Dornier works at the airport a new shipyard with experimental department and flight operations.
1945 occupied the French Forces of the airport, have called Airfield R.58 the Allies, and in November laid three equipped with Spitfire XVI Forces françaises libres seasons of which were part of the British Air Force of Occupation until then, RAF Fassberg after Friedrichshafen. Thus began the expansion of the runway and the construction of many airport building. The French called their base from now on as base aérienne Tactique 136 ( BAT.136 ), was here in the first nine months of 1950 the squadron Chasse 4ème the Armée de l'air, first with American P -47 Thunderbolt. Later this unit Jets, first British Vampire Mk.1 and later the Dassault Ouragan flew from their own country. In 1954, the French Air Force moved their base to the newly built military airfield at Bremgarten. From 1967 to 1973, positions of the air defense missile battalion 33 (MIM -23 HAWK ) of the Bundeswehr were on the premises. The troop was housed in the Luitpold Barracks ( Lindau). As of September 1973 took the French Army on the pitch. Here was the first aviator group of the 2nd French Corps, Groupe d'aviation corps d' armée légère du 2ème ( GALCA 2) and from September 1978, resulting from 2e régiment d' hélicoptères de combat (2 ° RHC ). The main types of helicopters were stationed SA319 Alouette III, SA330 Puma and Gazelle SA341/342. After the fall of the Berlin Wall ended in 1992, the stationing of French military aircraft.
1994 got the airport a new runway and was brought technically up to date. The previously approved as a commercial airfield airport was therefore re-classified in an airport of general traffic. In 1998, the airport of the Federal Republic of Germany to the airport Friedrichshafen GmbH was sold.
Since 1997 the airport has its own stop on the adjacent railway line Ulm- Friedrichshafen.
During the International Lake Constance Airshow ( IBAS ) in 1998 at the airport St. Gallen -Altenrhein on the Swiss side of Lake Constance, the two Red Arrows aerobatic teams and Frecce Tricolori were stationed in Friedrichshafen.
In the winter of 1999 and the summer of 2000 Britannia Airways flew with a stopover in Geneva ( winter) and Munich (Summer) every 14 days from Friedrichshafen to Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic with a Boeing 767
In the spring of 2010, drew the budget airline Ryanair, which had been flown from Friedrichshafen to London Stansted and Alicante, from Lake Constance back and focuses its operations in the region since the airport Memmingen.
Since the clearance terminal was designed for only 500,000 passengers, the airport was expanded to a capacity of 1.5 million passengers, with a total investment of over 30 million euros. On 1 September 2010, the 5500 m² large new terminal was opened after 20 months of construction. Sales in 2010 rose 14 percent to 10.6 million euros, operating profit by 15 percent to 1.5 million euros. Due to the depreciation of around 3 million euros a year plus interest, but results in a loss of 2.6 million euros.
Since May 2, 2013 Turkish Airlines flies directly the airport from Istanbul, and thus allowed the area a direct international connection.
Aviation AERO
At the airport and the adjacent Friedrichshafen Neue Messe Exhibition is held annually (until 2009, every two years ), the International Trade Fair for General Aviation AERO instead. It is a trade fair for business and private aircraft, that - similar to the much larger EBACE - without any military presence.
Statistics
In recent years, the Friedrichshafen airport passenger numbers reached following:
Equipment
The only airstrip is allowed in main landing direction 24 with an instrument landing system of all-weather operations stage CAT IIIb, in addition to landing direction 06 only to CAT I.
Trivia
- Since the first scheduled Zeppelin scheduled trips before 1908 took off from this very place in Friedrichshafen, this airport is designated in competition with the established by August Euler in 1908 in Griesheim Airport was the first airport in Germany occasionally.
- One of the largest freight aircraft around the world, the Antonov An-124 is now and again in Friedrichshafen guest to transport satellites EADS Cassidian daughters / Astrium, which maintains a location nearby.
- The southern part of the control zone of the airport Friedrichshafen ranges in areas controlled by the Swiss air traffic control Skyguide airspace at Lake Constance into ..
Aeronautical radio frequencies
- Tower: 120 075 and 134 300
- Approach control: 119 925
- ATIS: 129.6
- INFO: 122.50 ( uncommon, only on special occasions such as exhibition mode)