Helgoland-Düne Airport Guide

Helgoland-Düne Airport is a small public airfield on Düne, the smaller of the two islands of the Heligoland archipelago in the North Sea. The island lies about 1 km east of the main island of Helgoland and roughly 70 km from the German mainland. The airfield sits 2 m above sea level.

The airfield was built on sand deposited to enlarge Düne in the late 1930s and served mainly as an emergency and alternate field in World War II. It reopened in 1962 under British occupation and is now run by Helgoland AirService GmbH. It is a Verkehrslandeplatz licensed for aeroplanes up to 5,700 kg and helicopters up to 10,000 kg. Three concrete runways cross the island: 15/33 at 480 by 30 m, 03/21 at 371 m and 06/24 at 258 m. The main runway was extended from 400 m in 2005 and reopened on 6 May 2006. There is also one helipad.

Passengers fly in from the mainland and then take the short ferry from Düne to the main island, where a single taxi links the airfield and the ferry landing. Motor vehicles and bicycles are not allowed on the archipelago. OFD Ostfriesischer Flugdienst operates the scheduled flights from Nordholz-Spieka, Heide-Büsum and Uetersen. The last published passenger figure is 16,908 for the year 2000.