Braunschweig Wolfsburg Airport Flughafen Braunschweig-Wolfsburg | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Private | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Airport Braunschweig-Wolfsburg GmbH | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Braunschweig andWolfsburg | ||||||||||||||
| Focus city for | Volkswagen Air Services | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 295 ft / 90 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°19′09″N010°33′19″E / 52.31917°N 10.55528°E /52.31917; 10.55528 | ||||||||||||||
| Website | fhbwe.de | ||||||||||||||
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  EDVE Location of the airport in Lower Saxony | |||||||||||||||
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| Source: ADV[1] AIP atGerman air traffic control.[2] | |||||||||||||||
Braunschweig Wolfsburg Airport (German:Flughafen Braunschweig-Wolfsburg) (IATA:BWE,ICAO:EDVE) is anairport inBraunschweig,Germany. Originally constructed by the German Air Ministry in the 1930s, it is located on the northern edge of Braunschweig, which is situated betweenHanover andMagdeburg. Braunschweig Airport traditionally has been a major centre ofgliding in Germany and is also used forgeneral aviation, especially business traffic.
The headquarters of the German Federal Aviation Office, theLuftfahrt-Bundesamt are located at Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport. Also, theBraunschweig University of Technology has some of its aeronautical departments on site.
Its mainrunway is 2,300 metres (7,546 ft) long and 30 metres (98 ft) wide. It also has a parallel grass runway of 900 metres (2,953 ft) by 30 m.
In May 2009 the extension of the runway from 1,680 metres (5,512 ft) to 2,300 metres (7,546 ft) had received its final legal go-ahead.[3] Some €38 million were envisaged for the airport upgrade. Despite strong resistance from local action groups,[4] both Volkswagen and DLR pushed forward with the project in order to be able to use bigger than regional jets under all weather conditions in the future. While the DLR will fly a researchAirbusA320 within their flight control and supervision programme from the airport, Volkswagen intends to utilise narrow body aircraft on its business routes instead of its current regional aircraft types. No plans to intensify commercial traffic from and to the airport have been made public yet.
In the immediate vicinity of the airport, a research car park was built, which gives the opportunity to explore autonomous parking.[5]
There are no scheduled public passenger or cargo services at the airport, which is used for unscheduled traffic with business jets, as well as by theGerman Aerospace Center, e.g., with their special mission aeroplanes to discover phenomena in the atmosphere. There are also ad hoc charter flights to leisure destinations.[6]
The nearest operating airport isHannover Airport, located about 70 km (43 mi) north west of Braunschweig Wolfsburg Airport.
ThecarmanufacturerVolkswagen Group, which is based in nearbyWolfsburg, is a major shareholder, and uses the airfield as home base for their own airline fleet operated byVolkswagen Air Services. Volkswagen AG operates regular services to other European sites of the company and its subsidiaries, such asŠkoda,Audi andSEAT.
This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
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