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Kassel Airport (EDVK) lies at Calden in Hesse, a short distance northwest of the city of Kassel, and is Germany's newest commercial airport, opened in 2013. Today it serves a mix of seasonal leisure charters, business aviation and an aerospace industrial park, and offers a single long, lit runway with ILS that makes it a useful destination for simulator pilots practising instrument approaches in central Germany.
Kassel Airport, often referred to as Kassel-Calden Airport, is a regional airport serving the city of Kassel in the German state of Hesse. It is mainly used for business and general aviation alongside a modest programme of seasonal leisure charter flights, and it sits within an aviation industrial park that hosts helicopter and aircraft manufacturing activity. For a simulator pilot it offers a long, well-equipped hard runway with an ILS, making it a straightforward and interesting waypoint for cross-country or instrument-approach practice in central Germany.
The airport is located at Calden in the Landkreis Kassel, roughly 1.9 kilometres west of the town of Calden itself and about 16.7 kilometres northwest of the city of Kassel. It is served by Kassel Tower and Kassel Ground for local control, with Bremen Radar providing radar service and Langen Information providing wider flight information in the surrounding airspace.
The airport has a single physical runway, 09/27, 8187 feet long with a hard surface. Both directions are lit and equipped with ILS, giving instrument approach capability from either end.
Pilots should expect the following services and frequencies: Langen Information (AFIS) on 119.825 MHz, Kassel ATIS on 129.205 MHz, Kassel Ground on 121.905 MHz, Bremen Radar on 123.925 MHz, and Kassel Tower on 118.105 MHz. An ILS is available for runway 09/27.
The present Kassel Airport opened as a commercial airport on 4 April 2013, replacing an earlier general aviation airfield, the Verkehrslandeplatz Kassel-Calden, which had operated on a neighbouring site from 1970 until 2013. In its early years the airport attracted seasonal charter operators: Germania served destinations including Palma de Mallorca, Antalya, Fuerteventura, Heraklion and Hurghada through the mid-2010s before withdrawing its scheduled services ahead of the 2017 summer season, after which the newly founded charter airline Sundair began basing an aircraft there for Mediterranean leisure routes. The airport also handled cargo traffic for a period, including weekly Boeing 737 freighter flights for Amazon between November 2015 and May 2017, linking Kassel with Doncaster in England and Breslau in Poland. The airport's construction phase later came under scrutiny amid reports in 2016 of an investigation into procurement rules.
Kassel Airport continues to combine limited scheduled and charter passenger services with a significant business and general aviation role. The site includes an aviation industrial park housing more than 35 companies, among them Airbus Helicopters and Piper Deutschland, employing over 1,200 people with direct apron access to the airfield. Flying schools and clubs are based at the airport, and it offers facilities for visiting general aviation traffic as part of its wider aviation cluster.
