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Cottbus-Drewitz Airport

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Flugplatz Cottbus-Drewitz

IATA: CBU

ICAO: EDCD

Summary

Airport type

Civilian

Operator

Flughafen Süd-
Brandenburg-Cottbus GmbH

Serves

Cottbus

Location

Jänschwalde-Drewitz

Built

1939

Elevation AMSL

276 ft / 84 m

Coordinates

51°53′22″N 14°31′55″E / 51.88944°N 14.53194°E

Website

www.flugplatz-drewitz.de

Map

Cottbus-

Location of airport in Germany

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
07/25	8,148	2,484	Concrete
07L/25R	4,918	1,499	Grass

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

History[edit]

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 for civilian use. In April 2000 a new control tower was opened.

The airport was most often used for charter flights for the football team FC Energie Cottbus, but was also used for training flights by 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.^[1] 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.^[1] The test aircraft departed undamaged.^[1]

Aside from a bistro serving the terminal, there was also a small aviation museum and flying school. The runway 07's centerline latitude is 51.885409 degrees and the longitude is 14.515136. Runway 25's centerline latitude is 51.893514 while the longitude is 14.549012 degrees.

The airport closed to all air traffic for the final time on 31 January 2020.^[2] Due to investors pulling out, there have been several failed attempts to turn the civilian airport into a freight hub with a 3000 m runway, similar in concept to Frankfurt-Hahn.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Hoyle, Craig (May 25, 2012), "Soft ground cuts short A400M landing trials", Flightglobal.com website, London: Reed Elsevier, OCLC 173992746, archived from the original on June 7, 2012, retrieved June 7, 2012, Development aircraft MSN2 arrived at Cottbus-Drewitz airport on 22 May, following a transfer flight from Toulouse, France. It had been expected to remain at the location until the end of this week to perform landings on a grass strip at the site, but was involved in a minor incident during a test conducted the following day.