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Flugplatz Osnabrück-Atterheide (EDWO) is a small general-aviation aerodrome in the Atter district on the northwestern edge of Osnabrück, close to the Lower Saxony/North Rhine-Westphalia border. Home to the Aero-Club Osnabrück since 1959, it offers a single hard-surfaced, lit runway and handles several thousand light-aircraft movements a year, making it a pleasant and historically rich VFR destination for visiting pilots.
Osnabrück-Atterheide is a Verkehrslandeplatz (licensed general-aviation airfield) operated by the Aero-Club Osnabrück e.V. It sits in the Atter district of Osnabrück and has served local motor flying, gliding and, in earlier decades, even rocket demonstrations. For a sim pilot it offers a compact, well-established German club airfield with a long and colourful aviation history stretching back over a century.
The airfield lies in the Osnabrück city district of Atter, close to the border between Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, about 1.5 km southeast of the Atter village centre and roughly 6 km northwest of Osnabrück's city centre. No controlled airspace details are given in the available sources, but the field is served by information/advisory rather than full air traffic control services.
EDWO has a single physical runway, 09/27, 2610 ft (approximately 800 m) long with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS at the field.
Local aerodrome traffic is worked on Osnabrück Radio, an information (INFO) frequency of 118.68 MHz. Regional flight information services are also relevant to pilots transiting the area: Bremen Information (AFIS) on 119.825 MHz and Langen Information (AFIS) on 129.875 MHz. No published instrument approach or navaid is associated with the field.
The airfield can be identified by its position northwest of Osnabrück's city centre and southeast of the village of Atter, close to the road named Zum Flugplatz. From the city, the site is reached via the Lotterstraße, which becomes the Rheiner Landstraße, leading to a roundabout with an exit signed for the Flugplatz Atterheide, a useful ground reference for orientating a visual approach from the city side.
Flying at the Atterheide site dates back to 1912, when aerobatic pilot Gustav Tweer and other Osnabrück aviation pioneers were permitted to use the heath for flying. From the mid-1920s it was used by glider pilots of the Osnabrücker Verein für Luftfahrt, since the city's main airfield at Netter Heide in Haste was unsuitable for glider launches; launches were made from a gently sloping hill facing south. On 21 August 1932 engineer Reinhold Tiling held a flying display here presenting his own rocket designs before some 4,000 spectators. After the Haste airfield closed in 1935, glider and model-flying use of the Atterheide increased further, though no flying activity is recorded there from 1938. After civil powered flying resumed in Germany in 1955, 28 enthusiastic pilots founded the Aero-Club Osnabrück in December 1955, initially flying from a field at Vörden near Bramsche. When that site was taken over for military use (a Dutch Nike air-defence installation) from 1959, the club moved to the Atterheide, leasing land from the Ostman von der Leye family, owners of the nearby Gut Leye estate. After the ground was cleared and levelled, test take-offs and landings by powered aircraft began in 1958, and following official approval in January 1959 the airfield formally opened on 25 April 1959. In its early years the grass landing strip, 500 metres long and running west-east, was served from a wooden hut that housed both the aviation authority office and the Aero-Club. Large air displays in the 1960s, featuring aerobatics, parachutists and even touch-and-go passes by jet aircraft, drew crowds of up to 40,000. The airfield was progressively developed through the members' own labour without public funding: hangars were built, the runway was extended to 800 metres and paved in 1980, a tower was opened in 1986, and a new clubhouse followed in 1990.
The airfield remains under the operation of the Aero-Club Osnabrück e.V. and, as a licensed Verkehrslandeplatz, must be available to general aviation during its published opening hours; two full-time aviation-supervision officers are employed on site. It can be used year-round by aircraft up to 5.7 tonnes and by helicopters, with between roughly 9,000 and 11,000 flight movements recorded annually. Alongside its flying activities the field also has a flight school and a restaurant/catering operation on site. The airfield has been reproduced as add-on scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator/Prepar3D, including a dedicated VFR Airfields release and a more recent MSFS scenery package.
