Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport
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Coordinates | 53°32′09″N 09°50′13″E / 53.53583°N 9.83694°E | ||||||||||
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Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder, also known as Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport (
History
In 1933, the
In 1937, the HFB was reconstituted as a operating division of Blohm & Voss rather than as a separate company, and the Finkenwerder aircraft works and associated airfield were established in 1939 by this division. The works were substantially damaged during World War II, and when manufacturing was revived there, using the previous HFB company identity, the facilities began a long series of progressive expansions and modernizations.[6]
During the
In 1964, both the HFB 320 Hansa Jet and the third prototype Transall C-160 made their first flights from the airport. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, HFB and its Finkenwerder facility eventually became part of Airbus.
Between April 2006 and July 2007, the runway was extended at the southern end, increasing its length from 2,684 m to 3,183 m, in order to accommodate the planned freight version of the Airbus A380.[9]
The foundations of the Fink II submarine pen are extant, just east of the north end of the runway.
Manufacturing
The Airbus site at
Airport flights
There are no public scheduled services at Finkenwerder. The airport handles around 10 to 15 aircraft movements per day. Most are transfer, freight, and test flights for Airbus manufacturing. The twice-daily corporate shuttle service to the Airbus plant in Toulouse has been operated by the Spanish operator Volotea since 4 November 2019 on a five-year contract. Previously the service was operated by Germania.[citation needed]
Incidents and accidents
- In 1967 the pilot of a Spantax Convair 990 Coronado mistook the 1360 m long runway of Finkenwerder for the 3000 m long runway of Hamburg Airport in Fuhlsbüttel, and only just brought the aircraft to a stop before the end of the runway.[10]
See also
References
Citations
- ^ "AIP VFR online". dfs.de. DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ Amtmann, Hans; "Blohm und Voss Remembered" (Part 1), Aeroplane Monthly, February 1998, pp. 22–27
- 'ISBN 3-87943-624-X
- ^ Gunston, Bill; World Encyclopedia of Aero manufacturers, 2nd edition, Sutton, 2005.
- ^ Walden, Hans; Wie Geschmiert: Rüstungsproduktion und Waffenhandel im Raum Hamburg ("Well Oiled: Armament Production and Arms Trading in the Hamburg Area"), Loeper, 1997. B+V Geschichte v. 1933-1938 (retrieved 1 May 2017)
- ^ Pohlmann, Hermann; Chronik Eines Flugzeugwerkes (Story of an aircraft manufacturer), 2nd impression, Motorbuch Verlag, 1982.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 67.
- ^ Jefford 1988, p. 74.
- ^ ReGe Hamburg Projekt-Realisierungsgesellschaft: Start- und Landebahn an Airbus übergeben Archived 16 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine In German, 15 January 2014.
- ^ Bonsen, Götz (30 May 2017). "Irrflug einer Pannen-Airline: Gabelflug mit Spantax: Wie vor 50 Jahren ein Flugzeug in Hamburg kurz verschwand | shz.de". shz. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
Bibliography
- Jefford, C.G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife. ISBN 1-85310-053-6.
External links
Media related to Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder at Wikimedia Commons
- Accident history for XFW at Aviation Safety Network
- Current weather for EDHI at NOAA/NWS