Stuttgart Airport is the international airport of Stuttgart, the capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is christened in honor of Stuttgart's former mayor, Manfred Rommel, son of Erwin Rommel, and is the sixth busiest airport in Germany with 11,832,634 passengers having passed through its doors in 2018.
The airport is operated by Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH. It goes back to Luftverkehr Württemberg AG, which was founded in 1924 and initially operated Böblingen Airport. Since 2008, 65% of the operating company is owned by the state of Baden-Württemberg and 35% by the city of Stuttgart. It is located approximately 13 km in a straight line south of Stuttgart and lies on the boundary between the nearby town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Filderstadt and Stuttgart itself. In 2007, the Stuttgart Trade Fair – the ninth biggest exhibition centre in Germany – moved to grounds directly next to the airport. Additionally, the global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking are located here.
Prior permission required. While in the 1970ies, this was a lovely airfield, and flying was strongly supported by the Burda publishing company, the greenish attitude of local politicians has made flying on this airfield a miserable affair.
This airport used to be a Canadian Forces Base. The airport was used mostly for the frequent flights to and from Canada and for intra-Europe flights. In the 1980s and into the early 90s, the aircraft hardened shelters were used as an army garrison. One of the hard shelter areas was used by 444 Sqn, a tactical helicopter squadron flying the CH-136 Kiowa. I think that the ICAO code was EDAN at that time; I have no idea why it was changed. Even if the vocation of the airport changed drastically, I see no reason to change the ICAO code...
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Stuttgart Airport
🔗 Tue, 08 Nov 2022
— @Silvanus_Tauris at Stuttgart Airport, Germany
Stuttgart Airport is the international airport of Stuttgart, the capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is christened in honor of Stuttgart's former mayor, Manfred Rommel, son of Erwin Rommel, and is the sixth busiest airport in Germany with 11,832,634 passengers having passed through its doors in 2018.
The airport is operated by Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH. It goes back to Luftverkehr Württemberg AG, which was founded in 1924 and initially operated Böblingen Airport. Since 2008, 65% of the operating company is owned by the state of Baden-Württemberg and 35% by the city of Stuttgart. It is located approximately 13 km in a straight line south of Stuttgart and lies on the boundary between the nearby town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Filderstadt and Stuttgart itself. In 2007, the Stuttgart Trade Fair – the ninth biggest exhibition centre in Germany – moved to grounds directly next to the airport. Additionally, the global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking are located here.
Great place to visit
🔗 Tue, 04 Jan 2022
— @fumimoto at Flugplatz Konstanz, Germany
with the most charming tower controller ever.
(no subject)
🔗 Sat, 18 Sep 2021
— @H-Air-ibert at Schwaigern/Stetten UL, Germany
Funk: 123.425 MHZ
Homepage
🔗 Wed, 16 May 2018
— @Skyrinrainer at Wangen-Kisslegg Airfield, Germany
http://www.fsg-wangen.de/
homepage of the airport
🔗 Thu, 24 Nov 2016
— @Skyrinrainer at Reute Airport, Germany
http://fliegerwaldsee.de/
PPR only! Used to be a nice little airfield - Offenburg City
🔗 Sat, 24 Sep 2016
— Anonymous Flyer at Flugplatz Offenburg, Germany
Prior permission required. While in the 1970ies, this was a lovely airfield, and flying was strongly supported by the Burda publishing company, the greenish attitude of local politicians has made flying on this airfield a miserable affair.
NDB
🔗 Wed, 06 Apr 2016
— @ndbhunter at Stuttgart Airport, Germany
NDB (SG 306.00 KHz closed on 2006-11-28)
NDB (SY 384.00 KHz closed on 2006-11-16)
on 384.00 KHz was NDB ST certainly replaced by SY
Sincerely, Alain
ok
🔗 Thu, 17 Apr 2014
— @fuzzflyer at Friedrichshafen Airport, Germany
42 euro a night! While your there spending money.. First and last visit.
Cool Picture
🔗 Thu, 20 Feb 2014
— @prattsoplenty at Farrenberg Gliderport, Germany
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/awesome-nature-settings-10.jpg
EDPJ
🔗 Tue, 18 Jan 2011
— Anonymous Flyer at Laichingen Airfield, Germany
See also the homepage of the club 'FSV Laichingen', who runs the PPR airfield 'Jabob-Laur-Flugplatz', at URL ( www dot edpj dot de).
Karle3
EDDS
🔗 Tue, 20 Oct 2009
— @jmblanco430 at Stuttgart Airport, Germany
RUNWAY 07---110.90---073º
CFB Lahr (EDAN?)
🔗 Sat, 20 Dec 2008
— @32Aret at Lahr Airport, Germany
This airport used to be a Canadian Forces Base. The airport was used mostly for the frequent flights to and from Canada and for intra-Europe flights. In the 1980s and into the early 90s, the aircraft hardened shelters were used as an army garrison. One of the hard shelter areas was used by 444 Sqn, a tactical helicopter squadron flying the CH-136 Kiowa. I think that the ICAO code was EDAN at that time; I have no idea why it was changed. Even if the vocation of the airport changed drastically, I see no reason to change the ICAO code...
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