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Schönhagen Airfield lies just south of Berlin, near the town of Trebbin in Brandenburg, and serves as a busy general aviation and business aviation reliever field for the capital's main airport. With a hard-surfaced main runway and two grass strips, it offers a varied and interesting destination for VFR pilots exploring the wooded, lake-strewn countryside south of Berlin.
Schönhagen Airfield (EDAZ) is a general and business aviation aerodrome close to the town of Trebbin in Brandenburg, a short distance south of Berlin. It has grown into one of the more significant reliever airfields for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, hosting flight schools, flying clubs, aircraft maintenance operations and research projects alongside routine GA traffic. For the visiting VFR pilot it combines a well-equipped hard-surfaced runway with grass strips, set in the attractive forest, heath and lake landscape of the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park, making it a popular and characterful stop for both training and touring flights.
Schönhagen lies just outside the control zone of Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER/EDDB), placing it within reach of, but clear of, that airport's controlled airspace. The field is situated near Trebbin in Brandenburg, in the countryside south of Berlin.
Schönhagen has three physical runways. The main runway, 07/25, is a hard-surfaced, lit strip of around 4388 ft (07) and 4158 ft (25) in length. A second hard-surfaced, lit runway, 12/30, measures 2287 ft. A parallel grass runway, 12R/30L, also lit, measures 2522 ft. There is no ILS at the field.
Aerodrome traffic is handled by Schönhagen Information, an AFIS service, on 131.155 MHz. An ATIS broadcast is available on 119.49 MHz. Wider area flight information is provided by Langen Information (FIS) on 132.65 MHz.
During the Second World War the field was home to the Reichsschule für Segelflug, the Imperial School of Gliding. In the early 1950s, Karl Liebeskind departed from Schönhagen in an SG-38 Schulgleiter on what is recorded as the first ever flight in the German Democratic Republic. The main runway, 07/25, was later extended to a length of over 1500 metres. Schönhagen also holds a notable place in Berlin aviation history: the last flight ever to depart Berlin Tempelhof Airport, in November 2008, landed at Schönhagen.
Schönhagen is approved for aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of up to 14 tonnes, as well as helicopters, gliders and ultralight aircraft. It functions as an important reliever airfield for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, with a substantial number of aircraft movements each year and numerous aviation businesses based on site, including flight schools, flying clubs, and manufacturers such as Cirrus and Aquila. The airfield also supports research and development activity, including projects on low-emission aviation fuels and low-altitude data systems.
