Dessau Alten Airbase / Helipad 1025

 
Germany /E/

General

For historical information only, do not use for navigation or aviation purposes!
CoordinatesN514954 E0121124

Location of airfield

Kühnauer Str.

Usage until 1945

Junkers airfield

Usage during the Cold War

East german transport aircrafts until beginning of the 1970s. Thereafter closed, airfield administration bei THG-34/FTB-34. At the airfield was probably also the location of the helipad 1025 for the Signals Intelligence Regiment 2 (FuAR-2).

Current usage

General aviation (EDAD)

Runways, Taxiways, Aprons

For historical information only, do not use for navigation or aviation purposes!

Runways

Design.LengthWidthSurfaceRemarks
09/272250 m50 mConcrete

Radio navigation

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 Station.Freq.IdentPositionRemarks
27LOM765WN
LMMW
FFFFernfunkfeuer
NFFNahfunkfeuer

Communications

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Radio

Call sign: WURZEN

Units

FTB-34 (PF 36035)

Real Property

Installation number 08/115

Flight Simulation

The Dessau airfield is part of the great scenery gdr_mil7 from Michael Spengler.

Map
Dessau Airfield in Flight Simulator  

Links

Flugplatz Dessau
Homepage
http://www.flugplatz-dessau.de/

Bibliography

Ries, Karl; Dierich, Wolfgang:
'Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe'
Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1993
Allied map

Zapf, Jürgen:
'Flugplätze der Luftwaffe 1934-1945 - und was davon übrig blieb / Sachsen-Anhalt'
VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2005
10 pages description, map, pictures, aerial pictures (1944 and 1953) und 7 current pictures.

Grenzdörfer, Joachim; Seifert, Karl-Dieter:
'Geschichte der ostdeutschen Verkehrsflughäfen'
Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 1997
4 pages description, history, map and aerial picture (1928)

Freundt, Lutz:
'Sowjetische Fliegerkräfte in Deutschland 1945-1994, Band 1'
Freundt Eigenverlag, Diepholz 1998
Short description, aerial picture (1953)

Freundt, Lutz:
'Sowjetische Fliegerkräfte in Deutschland 1945-1994, Band 4'
Edition Freundt Eigenverlag, Diepholz 2000
Additional information about flight operations in 1949

Freundt, Lutz (Hrsg.), Büttner, Stefan:
'Rote Plätze - Russische Militärflugplätze in Deutschland 1945 - 1994'
AeroLit Verlag, 2007
Short description, aerial picture (1953)

Billig, Detlef; Meyer, Manfred:
'Flugzeuge der DDR, I. Band bis 1962'
TOM Modellbau, Friedland, 2002
Picture of Il-14 and helicopters 1958 at Dessau