Rügen Airport (''Regionalflugplatz Rügen''), also known as Bergen Airfield or Güttin Airfield (''Regionalflugplatz Güttin''), (
at www.fallingrain.com. Accessed on 14 May 2012.) is the only

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on the German

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island of

Rügen Rügen (; la, Rugia, ) is Germany's largest island. It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The "gateway" to Rügen island is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, where ...

. The airfield lies in the municipality of

Dreschvitz Dreschvitz is a municipality in southwest Vorpommern-Rügen, a district on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is managed from the '' Amt'' of West-Rügen with its head offices in the village of Samtens. Geography The v ...

in its subdistrict of Güttin, about 8 kilometres south of the town of

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next to the B 96 federal road. Use of the tarmac

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is restricted to aeroplanes with a maximum weight of 5.7 tonnes. It can be lit for night-time operations.

Access

Road

The airfield lies only a few hundred metres from the B 96 federal road.

Rail

The airfield is not far from the railway line from Stralsund via Bergen to

Sassnitz Sassnitz (, before 1993 in german: Saßnitz) is a town on the Jasmund peninsula, Rügen Island, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The population as of 2012 was 9,498. Sassnitz is a well-known seaside resort and port town, a ...

Binz Binz is the largest seaside resort on the German island of Rügen. It is situated between the bay of Prorer Wiek and the ''Schmachter See'' (a lake) in the southeast of the island. To the north of Binz stretches the Schmale Heide (the "narrow he ...

. The nearest station on this line is Teschenhagen, less than away by road. In ''Teschenhagen'' there are hourly connexions at peak times on the RegionalExpress to Stralsund, and to Bergen auf Rügen. There are also connexions to Rostock, Sassnitz and Binz.

History

Beginnings

The airfield started life as an agricultural airstrip in Güttin with a grass runway. After being exclusively used for agricultural flights from 1982 to 1990, in summer 1990 the first round trips over the island were offered, initially with agricultural aircraft of type Let Z-37 and Antonow ( AN-2)''Flugplatz - Historie''
at www.flugplatz-ruegen.de. Accessed on 14 May 2012.

Development since 1990

In the years after 1990 the first charter flights to Bornholm, Berlin-Tempelhof and Hamburg were added. In May 1993 the 750 metre-long grass airstrip was replaced by a 900-metre-long tarmac runway with associated

taxiway A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities. They mostly have a hard surface such as asphalt or concrete, although smaller general aviation airports sometimes use gravel ...

s. In 1995 a

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with a floor area of 20x30 metres was built and PAPI landing lights installed. In July 1998, a new terminal building with a tower and restaurant was opened. There is also a stationary, above-ground fuel tank facility for Avgas as well as

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References

External links

Flugplatz-Homepage

Rügen Airport at airports.de
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rugen Airport Vorpommern-Rügen Rügen Dreschvitz Airports in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania