Stadtlohn-Vreden Airport (German: Flugplatz Stadtlohn-Vreden) is an airfield located west of
Stadtlohn
The city of Stadtlohn ( nds, Stadlaun), which has 20,746 inhabitants (Dec. 2020),
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, in the
Borken district, Germany. Its runway lays adjacent to the Dutch border. The airfield is used for
general aviation
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, as well for gliding and skydiving.
Plans are made to extend the runway to but these plans are controversial. Local political parties disagree with each other whether growth is worthwhile the 8 million Euro investment. The final decision by the Kreistag was expected at 2 April 2009 but is postponed. As of 2 October 2010, the runway extension works have begun.
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Transport in Germany
As a densely populated country in a central location in Europe and with a developed economy, Germany has a dense transport infrastructure.
One of the first limited-access highway systems in the world to have been built, the extensive German A ...
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List of airports in Germany
This is a list of airports in Germany, sorted by location.
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Airports in North Rhine-Westphalia
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