Cottbus-Drewitz Airport

Cottbus-Drewitz Airport Flugplatz Cottbus-Drewitz
IATA: CBU – ICAO: EDCD Cottbus- Drewitz Airport Location of airport in Germany
Summary
Airport type	Civilian
Operator	Flughafen Süd- Brandenburg-Cottbus GmbH
Serves	Cottbus
Location	Jänschwalde-Drewitz
Built	1939
Elevation AMSL	276 ft / 84 m
Coordinates
Website	www.flugplatz-drewitz.de
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 07/25 8,148 2,484 Concrete 07L/25R 4,918 1,499 Grass

Cottbus-Drewitz Airport (IATA: CBU, ICAO: EDCD) is a civilian airport located in Drewitz, an Ortsteil of Jänschwalde, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) north-east of Cottbus in Brandenburg, Germany.

History

During World War II Cottbus-Drewitz Airport was used by the Luftwaffe and from 1956 by the National People's Army.

Upon German reunification in 1990, the Luftwaffe officially took over the airport once again but after 1993, the airport's new owners, Flughafen Süd-Brandenburg-Cottbus GmbH, had opened it up for civilian use.

In April 2000 a new control tower was opened.

Present

The airport is most often used for charter flights for the football team FC Energie Cottbus, but is also used for training flights by Air Berlin, TUIfly, Lufthansa and Germania.

In late May 2012, a grass strip at the airport was used to conduct unpaved runway trials of the Airbus A400M military airlifter. Although Airbus Military had examined the grass strip and believed it suitable, testing was cut short when the test aircraft penetrated the runway surface during a rejected takeoff test. The test aircraft departed undamaged.

Aside from a bistro serving the terminal, there is also a small aviation museum and flying school.

Future

Due to investors pulling out, there has been several failed attempts to turn the civilian airport into a freight hub with a 3000 m runway, similar in concept to Frankfurt-Hahn.

External links

• Official website (German)