Dresden Airport (NVA LSK/LV TS-24, FWD)

Location of airfield

The airfield is located north-north east of Dresden.

Usage until 1945

The airport opened during the 1930s.

Usage during the Cold War

1945 occupied by the Red Army. Flugzeugwerk Dresden (FWD, aircraft construction), later Flugzeugwerft Dresden (FWD, aircraft maintenance). Base for east german airforce transport aircraft (Il-14, An-26). Also used by Interflug airline.

Usage after 1990

Used by Bundeswehr and dismanteling of east german fighter aircrafts

Current usage

Civil airfield.

Runways

Data for the year 1976:

Data for the year 1985:

Data for the year 1989 after reconstruction of runway and reducing the width:

Data for the year 1989:

Radio

Data for the 1980s:

Military

The military call sign of the airfield was FIGARO; Tower: FIGARO-STARTRO-START (frequencies 132,0 and 124,0 MCs); Direction finder: FIGARO-PELENG (130,0 MCs).

Civil

The civil calls sign were DRESDEN APPROACH and DRESDEN TOWER (both 127,7 MCs); PAR: DRESDEN PRECISION (118,0 MCs).

Telephone

Data for the 1980s:

Sondernetz S1

The number in Sondernetz/Stabsnetz S1 was 9321. The call signs were NEIGUNGSEHE (switchboard) and GERÄT (command post). Passport check by Ministry of State Security: 7-9724-2878.

Deutsche Post

Airport: Dresden 58941, 585171
Interflug: Dresden 583141

Teletype

Data for the 1980s:

Sondernetz/Stabsnetz S1:
Passport checkpoint: 939-374-44, call sign guest-dfh.

Deutsche Post
Interflug: Telex 026 036

Maps

Maps from a secret east german document.

Location of airfield with radio beacons and airways.		Departure routes for main landing direction 221°
Departure routes for secondary landing direction 041°		Approach in main landing direction 221°. The three beacons FS, FO und F are good visible..
Approach in secondary landing direction 041°

Units 1990:
- Transportfliegerstaffel 24 (TS-24, Postfach PF 33608)
- Fliegertechnisches Bataillon 24 (FTB-24, PF 43803)
- Luftaufklärungszentrale (PF 63276)

Data for the year 1990:

LUROKOs An-26 Page
Informations about An-26 and TS-24
http://www.luroko.de/

DDR-Luftwaffe
History of TS-24
http://home.snafu.de/veith/fofmtfk.htm

USMLM Unit History 1971
Sighting of a egypt An-12 at Dresden on 08 july 1971
http://www.history.hqusareur.army.mil/uslmannual.htm

USMLM Unit History 1972
Sighting of an An-12 with arab markings and a MiG-21 in camouflaged colours.
http://www.history.hqusareur.army.mil/uslmannual.htm

USMLM Unit History 1973
MiG-17 with modified pylons.
http://www.history.hqusareur.army.mil/uslmannual.htm

Dresden Airport
Official homepage of Dresden airport
http://www.dresden-airport.de/

Sachsenbunker
Radio beacons at Dresden airport.
http://www.sachsenschiene.net/bunker/flp/flp_11.htm

Zapf, Jürgen:
'Flugplätze der Luftwaffe 1934-1945 - und was davon übrig blieb / Sachsen'
VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2002
6 pages with description, aerial pictures from 1945 and 1953 and 33 current coloured pictures.

Grenzdörfer, Joachim; Seifert, Karl-Dieter:
'Geschichte der ostdeutschen Verkehrsflughäfen'
Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 1997
15 pages with description, pictures and maps.

Freundt, Lutz:
'Sowjetische Fliegerkräfte in Deutschland 1945-1994, Band 1'
Freundt Eigenverlag, Diepholz 1998
Short description about usage after the war; part of an aerial picture from 1953.

Bußmann, Kleest, Freundt:
'"11-80, katapultieren Sie!"'
AeroLit - Verlag und Medienvertrieb, Berlin, 2004
Short descriptions of aircraft accidents at Dresden in 1963, 1964, 1966 and 1967

Billig, Detlef; Meyer, Manfred:
'Flugzeuge der DDR, I. Band bis 1962'
TOM Modellbau, Friedland, 2002
Informationens and many pictures about construction of Il-14 and Baade 152 at Dresden

35°/4 km Weixdorf Highway Strip
195°/4 km Dresden Heller
165°/8,5 km Dresden-Elbwiesen
34°/16 km Königsbrück HSLP 3044 (ILM)
151°/20 km Pirna