Fürstenwalde: Airfield
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Coordinates: N522322 E0140544 (WGS84)
Map: Google Maps
Elevation: 184 ft
Location Indicator: EDAL (200x)
Operator: GSSD, Interflug
Airfield ID: A 05-11
Location
Former East Germany, District of Frankfurt/O;
today Federal State of Brandenburg.
today Federal State of Brandenburg.
Location
Former East Germany ("GDR"), Bezirk (District) Frankfurt/Oder;
today Federal State of Brandenburg.
today Federal State of Brandenburg.
Germany during the Cold War
Location of airfield
3 km northeast of Furstenwalde center.
During World War II
Usage
Luftwaffe airfield
Situation
Fürstenwalde Airfield in World War II on a US map from 194x - (McMaster University Library Digital Archive, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 CC BY-NC 2.5 CA /MULDA/)
Overview
Fürstenwalde airfield on a US map from 1952 - (AMS M841 GSGS 4414, Courtesy Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University /BYU/)
During the Cold War
Usage
Base for soviet transport helicopters until mid-1970s. Then agricultural airfield.
Situation
Fürstenwalde Airfield on a map of the US Department of Defense from 1972 - (ONC E-2 (1972), Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin /PCL MC/)
Runways
Data for the year 1990:
- 08/26: 1200 m Bit closed / unusable
- 12/30: 800 m Grass
Maps
Situation map from 1975. Source: VFR manual of former East German Interflug agricultural aeronautical division. Map turned into approximate north direction.
The following map was part of the VFR manual of former East German Interflug agricultural aeronautical division. The document was classified as "restricted".
Visual approach map from 1974
Connections between visual approach and departure routes and local flying routes
Connecting routes between the visual approach and departure routes of the airfields and the Local Flying Routes (as of March 1st, 1982): Shortes flying route from the airfield to the local flying route No. 31 (leg Prötzel - Autobahn intersection Fürstenwalde).
Explanation: The "Local Flying routes" were a network of VFR routes in the former East Germany. The routes were numbered and the legs were defined as straight lines between geographic points.
Today
Use today
Closed, the area is used for a solar power plant.
Links
- /BYU/:
http://lib.byu.edu/collections/german-maps/ - German Maps (Topographische Karte 1:25,000)
Bibliography
- Freundt, Lutz: "Sowjetische Fliegerkräfte in Deutschland 1945-1994, Band 1" Freundt Eigenverlag, Diepholz 1998 - Short description, aerial picture from 1953
Airfields in the vicinity
- 196°/7km Fürstenwalde: Helipad 3002 (HSLP / HLP 3002)
- 355°/10km Müncheberg: Eggersdorf Airfield (Eggersdorf)
- 048°/12km Heinersdorf: Helipad 3024 (HSLP / HLP 3024)
- 228°/12km Markgrafpieske: Helipad 3110 (HSLP / HLP 3110)
- 337°/14km Waldsieversdorf: Helipad 3004 (HSLP / HLP 3004, Rotes Luch)
- 171°/15km Wilmersdorf: Helipad 3023 (HSLP / HLP 3023)
- 200°/16km Reichenwalde: Helipad 3120 (HSLP 3120)
- 238°/17km Spreenhagen: Helipad 1013 (HSLP / HLP 1013)
- 243°/19km Spreenhagen: Highway Strip (Autobahnabschnitt ABA, Friedrichshof)
- 210°/20km Storkow: Helipad 1027 (HSLP 1027)
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