The airport Schwerin-Parchim is not far away from Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern, part of the former East German Republic GDR. It is also nearly in the middle between Hamburg and Berlin and was planned to become the main airport in Northern Germany,
but then the decission felt for Berlin-Schoenefeld
History
1934 all started as a glider field
1936 decission to built an airbase for the Luftwaffe
August 1937 first starts and landings
1.9.1939 (Hitler starts WWII) full operationable, maintenance and repair for damaged but functionable planes
Dec. 1942 expansion as an airbase for night fighters
1943 construction of a concrete surface runway WSW-ENE (L: 2 km, W: 80 m)
Fall 1944 extension of the runway to 2,500 m
Dec. 1944 stationing of first jetfighters Me-262
February 1945 first missions for the Me-262
April 1945 Bombing and total destroying by the 8th USAAF
from May 1945 dynamite the rest of the runways
1952/1953 re-construction of a concrete runway for the Soviet Airforce
1981 to 1992 further development as an average and deviation airfield for military-heavy duty-missions
from 1981 upgrading the runway ( L: 3.000m, W: 57 m ), hardening the runway surface, new buildings and equipment, e.g. radar, ILS, wireless station, illumination
1989 Soviet Airforce becomes Russian Airforce or CIS-Airforce, end of Warsaw Pact
Nov 13 1992 official leave-taking of the CIS-forces from airbase Parchim
Dec.1992 disassembly of the ILS, only planes up to 14 mto are allowed to use the airport Foundation of the private airport company FPM Flughafen Parchim Mecklenburg GmbH.
1996 opening of the control zone Schwerin-Parchim and first trainings for pilots of
Lufthansa.
March 1998 completation of the terminal building (my Terminal 1) and opening of the first holiday flight season by a wellknown German tour operator "Neckermann Reisen" to spain, tunesia and turkey.
Schwerin-Parchim is still developing and trying to become a normal member of the international aviation activities.
This scenery is made from my private photos and memory of my first and only visit to the airport in summer 2000. As I was not allowed to enter the airport (I was no passenger and there was no traffic anyway) everything further inside the airport is my imagination and
reconstrution of the original FS2k scenery. I have some problems with the taxiway texture,
it vanish from time to time, sorry but I blame it to the author of my commercial scenery program. Anyway I think this the first detailed freeware scenery of an airport in former GDR (of course besides the wonderful scenery of the military airbases in the south by Michael Spengler) for the FS2k. So enjoy it but take it on your own risk as I will not
take any responsibility to whatever may happen to your hard- or software!
Thanks to Rainer Lund for making it possible to have a rotating light on top of the tower and for his FAUN-firetruck. Same to Heyno Baumann (Hamburg scenery, a "must-have") for tips in general and of course to all authors whose api`s I used as there are among others I probabely forgot or don`t know
Ralf J. Triebel for a part of the fence (military style),
Christian Friedrich for the CF Vito and the Follow-Me (nice things!),
Jerry Arzdorf for the refuelcars
Pascal Meziat, Brian McWilliams, Tom Hiscox and Manfred Moldenhauer(Scasm!) for the
Piper-Collection
Ole Egholm (Stauning/DK) für die Maersk-Fokker 50
Legal Note
This scenery is FREEWARE and Copyright 2001 by Uwe Schweitzer.
All copyrights of the used api`s remain with their authors, it is therefor not possible
to use this product in anyway as a commercial!
You are allowed to use it free and on your own risk, also publishing is possible as long as nobody is making many with it. This paper in German and English must alway be included!
Many happy landings
Uwe Schweitzer
Hamburg February 2002
E-Mail Uwe-A.Schweitzer@t-online.de
