Borkum Airport Guide

Borkum Airport (Flugplatz Borkum, ICAO EDWR) is a small airfield on the East Frisian island of Borkum in Lower Saxony, the westernmost of the German North Sea islands. It sits at about 1 metre above sea level, east of the main town. Civil flying began here in 1927, and in the early years a Dutch airline used the field as a stop on its Amsterdam to Stockholm route. The German Navy and the Luftwaffe used it during the Second World War, and after 1945 the town kept it for civil flying.

The airfield has three runways: an asphalt runway 13/31 measuring 1,000 by 20 metres, and two grass runways, 12/30 at 870 by 40 metres and 05/23 at 810 by 40 metres. Landings on 12 and take-offs on 30 are limited to about 700 metres. It handles general aviation aircraft, air taxis and sightseeing flights.

OFD Ostfriesischer Flugdienst flies the scheduled service to Emden on the mainland. Sightseeing flights over Borkum and the other East Frisian islands also operate from the field, along with flights to Helgoland. Scheduled services to Dusseldorf and Berlin ran in the 2000s but have ended.