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Barth Airport lies on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, serving the town of Barth and the nearby city of Stralsund. Once a Luftwaffe base and later an Interflug outpost, it is today a general aviation field used for charter flights, gliding and offshore-wind support work, with no scheduled airline traffic.
Barth Airport, known locally as Ostseeflughafen Stralsund-Barth, is a regional aerodrome close to the Baltic Sea coast serving the town of Barth and the city of Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It has no scheduled passenger services but sees a good deal of general aviation activity, including upmarket charter traffic and gliding, making it an interesting stop for VFR pilots exploring the German Baltic coast.
The airfield sits in a popular Baltic Sea tourism area near Stralsund and Barth in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Flight information in the wider area is provided by Langen Information, and Bremen provides radar service to traffic in the vicinity.
Barth has a single hard-surfaced runway aligned 09/27. Runway 09 is 3,924 ft long and runway 27 is 3,760 ft long; both directions are lit.
Pilots can expect Langen Information on 132.65 MHz for flight information, Barth Radio on 118.08 MHz for local aerodrome traffic, and Bremen RADAR on 124.175 MHz. There is no ILS at the field.
The airfield began life as a Luftwaffe base, inaugurated in 1936, and was shut down after the Second World War in 1945. Commercial passenger traffic resumed in 1957 when new passenger facilities were built, and Lufthansa of East Germany operated routes from Barth to East Berlin, Leipzig, Erfurt and Dresden. Until 1975 the field was served by Interflug, providing leisure traffic throughout the GDR, before passenger operations were halted for political reasons; between 1975 and 1990 Barth instead served as the base for Interflug's agricultural aviation operations in the Rostock district. Following German reunification the airport was extended and modernised in several stages, with a new control tower and terminal built and the runway lengthened, the redevelopment being completed on 25 April 2012.
Barth functions today as a general aviation airport, hosting charter flights, gliding activity and, per the post-2012 redevelopment concept, servicing needs connected with the offshore wind power industry in the Baltic Sea. Scheduled airline traffic has not returned, largely because the runway remains too short for most modern passenger aircraft.
