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Gießen-Lützellinden Airfield (EDFL) is a small special-use aerodrome in Hesse, Germany, tucked between the towns of Wetzlar and Gießen near the village of Lützellinden. It offers a single lit hard-surfaced runway and is best known among aviation enthusiasts for a remarkable stunt-flying world record set here in 1980.
Gießen-Lützellinden Airfield, ICAO code EDFL, is a small aerodrome (Sonderlandeplatz) in Hesse, Germany, serving general aviation traffic. It lies close to the village of Lützellinden and is of interest to visiting pilots both for its compact single-runway layout and for its unusual place in aviation history as the starting point of a wing-walking transatlantic world record flight.
The airfield sits in Hesse, Germany, near the village of Lützellinden, between the towns of Wetzlar and Gießen (dewiki.de). It lies at coordinates 50.5438 N, 8.5902 E and has a field elevation of 755 feet. Flight information in the area is provided by Langen Information, indicating the airfield operates within the wider Langen FIS sector rather than under a dedicated control tower.
EDFL has a single hard-surfaced runway aligned 07/25, which is lit for night operations. The runway offers a landing distance of 2326 feet from the 25 threshold and 1388 feet from the 07 threshold. There is no ILS available at the field.
Pilots should contact Langen Information (AFIS) on 123.525 MHz. A local advisory frequency, Luetzelinden Radio, operates on 122.505 MHz. No instrument approach aids or navaids are noted for the field, and there is no ILS.
On 28 September 1980, Lützellinden airfield became the launch point for a remarkable world record: Jaromier Wagner, then 41 years old, stood on top of the fuselage of a twin-engine Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander as it crossed the Atlantic (dewiki.de). The airfield has also seen at least one serious incident, with a training flight reported to have ended fatally according to local press coverage (dewiki.de, citing Giessener Anzeiger).
Gießen-Lützellinden continues to operate as a small general aviation airfield in Hesse. Specific current details on based clubs, fuel availability, opening hours or permission requirements are not covered in the available material.
