Erfurt Bindersleben Airport

Location of airfield

5 km east of Erfurt.

Usage until 1945

Luftwaffe air base.

Usage during the Cold War

Soviet military airfield, later civilian airport; sometimes military use during exercises.

Current usage

Airport.

Runways

Data for the year 197x:

Data for the year 1990:

Later, the runway was elongated to 2600 m.

Taxiways and ramps

There were 2 parking positions on ramp 2 in front of the terminal building and 4 positions on ramp 3, west of taxiway C.

Data for the year 1984:

KGSP was an instrument landing system of the soviet type SP-50. Even though it used the same radio frequencies, is was not compatible with the ICAO ILS. The system at Erfurt was in use until ca. 1984. A new ILS was installed in 1988.

Data for the year 1990:

Radio

Erfurt Approach/Tower: 121.2 (198x)

In a soviet radio communication list, the call sign "PROIMA" is listed for Erfurt.

Telephone

Phone numbers in the public phone system during the 1980s

Airport: 5390

Air traffic control: 539349, 539350, 24474

Interflug: Commercial airline, operations Erfurt: 0061/51456; Agricultural aviation Erfurt: 0061/66693-95, 66609

Phone numbers in the S1 communication net in 1988

The passport check at the airport was connected as extension 2659 to the Stasi secret police regional headquarter. The number of the teletype in the S1 net and in the Stasi network was +739-489-44-c.

Teletype

Airport: 061424 (1989); Interflug: 61259 (1973)

Railway track from direction Alach to the south western part of the airfield.

During the 1980s, a Il-62 DDR-SEH of Interflug was stored at the airfield.

Ca. 400 m southeast of the field was a large soviet/russian circular antenna. The installation had a diameter of about 180 m and probably belonged to a HF direction finding network.

Google Maps
http://maps.google.de/maps?hl=de&ie=UTF8&ll=50.974535,10.95706&spn=0.040101...

Bing
Aerial picture
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=sgwsbshxcw6g&lvl=15&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTC...

Homepage
http://www.flughafen-erfurt.de/

Luftfahrt in Erfurt - Aviation in Erfurt
Airfield history
http://www.luftfahrt-erfurt.de/

Vergessene Bahnen - Lost Railways
Description of the former railway line Erfurt-West - Nottleben, including connection to the airfield.
http://www.vergessene-bahnen.de/Ex185k_2.htm

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 / Thüringen' VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2003 10 pages description, map, aerial pictures from 1944 and 1953.

Michels, Jürgen; Werner, Jochen: 'Luftfahrt Ost 1945-1990' Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 1994 Short description, picture

Grenzdörfer, Joachim; Seifert, Karl-Dieter: 'Geschichte der ostdeutschen Verkehrsflughäfen' Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 1997 8 pages description, maps and pictures

Freundt, Lutz (Hrsg.), Büttner, Stefan:
'Rote Plätze - Russische Militärflugplätze in Deutschland 1945 - 1994'
AeroLit Verlag, 2007
Description, picture of soviet transport aircrafts at Erfurt airfield in 1965

TPC E-2C; M-32-46

Alkersleben 153°/16 km
Hassleben 15°/15 km
Nohra 92°/20 km
Röhrensee 209°/17 km
Waltersleben Highway Strip 150°/9 km;