Aviation in Rhein-Main: Places to take off

Frankfurt Airport dominates aviation in Rhein-Main.

But beyond this internationally important airport, there are other places where planes take off and land.

On one of them, an ultralight pilot stopped for a short time on her circumnavigation of the world.

Jochen Remert

Airport editor and correspondent Rhein-Main-Süd.

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Mainz-Finthen Airport

Very close

Mainz-Finthen Airport offers a contrast to Frankfurt Airport.

At the largest German airport, you will certainly never be able to watch a pilot pulling his aircraft with a happy smile and his own muscle power out of the hangar to the gas station on the runway, refueling, checking everything again and then taking off.

In Finthen this can be observed at close range.

You can do this from a meadow with colorful thistles or a mound of earth, but you can also sit down in the restaurant in the lower part of the new tower to watch what's going on.

With a bit of luck, a pilot will take some time to explain to interested laypeople how to get a pilot's license and a suitable aircraft.

Flight schools can be found directly at the airport.

There are also gyrocopters on display, small rotorcraft that look like helicopters but are actually not powered by large rotors but by a propeller engine.

The rotors rotate solely through the wind and provide lift.

The small aircraft are considered easy to operate, safe and not that expensive.

The Finthen airfield was created during the Second World War.

After the war, the French Air Force built the asphalt runway, later the US armed forces moved up.

Today, the airport Mainz-Finthen Betriebs GmbH operates the facility.

Despite the relaxed atmosphere, it is advisable to make reservations in the gastronomy, especially on weekends when the weather forecast is good.

This is possible via the website

but actually not powered by large rotors, but by a propeller engine.

The rotors rotate solely through the wind and provide lift.

The small aircraft are considered easy to operate, safe and not that expensive.

The Finthen airfield was created during the Second World War.

After the war, the French Air Force built the asphalt runway, later the US armed forces moved up.

Today, the airport Mainz-Finthen Betriebs GmbH operates the facility.

Despite the relaxed atmosphere, it is advisable to make reservations in the gastronomy, especially on weekends when the weather forecast is good.

This is possible via the website

but actually not powered by large rotors, but by a propeller engine.

The rotors rotate solely through the wind and provide lift.

The small aircraft are considered easy to operate, safe and not that expensive.

The Finthen airfield was created during the Second World War.

After the war, the French Air Force built the asphalt runway, later the US armed forces moved up.

Today, the airport Mainz-Finthen Betriebs GmbH operates the facility.

Despite the relaxed atmosphere, it is advisable to make reservations in the gastronomy, especially on weekends when the weather forecast is good.

This is possible via the website

The small aircraft are considered easy to operate, safe and not that expensive.

The Finthen airfield was created during the Second World War.

After the war, the French Air Force built the asphalt runway, later the US armed forces moved up.

Today, the airport Mainz-Finthen Betriebs GmbH operates the facility.

Despite the relaxed atmosphere, it is advisable to make reservations in the gastronomy, especially on weekends when the weather forecast is good.

This is possible via the website

The small aircraft are considered easy to operate, safe and not that expensive.

The Finthen airfield was created during the Second World War.

After the war, the French Air Force built the asphalt runway, later the US armed forces moved up.

Today, the airport Mainz-Finthen Betriebs GmbH operates the facility.

Despite the relaxed atmosphere, it is advisable to make reservations in the gastronomy, especially on weekends when the weather forecast is good.

This is possible via the website

Despite the relaxed atmosphere, it is advisable to make reservations in the gastronomy, especially on weekends when the weather forecast is good.

This is possible via the website

Despite the relaxed atmosphere, it is advisable to make reservations in the gastronomy, especially on weekends when the weather forecast is good.

This is possible via the website

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Airport Egelsbach

Not just hobby pilots

The airfield in Egelsbach calls itself Frankfurt-Egelsbach Airport.

According to aviation law, it is an airfield.

But with around 80,000 take-offs and landings a year, the number of flight movements is more than twice as high as at Kassel-Calden Airport.

At the airfield in the district of Offenbach there is a great deal for aviation enthusiasts to see, from classics with radial engines to small jet planes.

However, until now, visitors can only see the full apron from the restaurant terrace in the terminal – except on flight days.

So you have to rely on the opening hours, which are available on the Internet at

are to be found.

In any case, the audience in Egelsbach can not only observe lively flight operations, but sometimes also unusual guests: For example, the 19-year-old student Zara Rutherford made her last stopover in Egelsbach in January on her world tour in an ultralight aircraft before returning to Belgium .

She is believed to be the youngest woman to circumnavigate the world in a solo flight.

If you are planning something similarly spectacular or just want to acquire a pilot's license, you can do so in one of the flight schools in Egelsbach.

Sightseeing flights over the region by plane or in a helicopter flight can also be booked here, simulators are also offered.

An essential target group of the company Triwo, which operates Egelsbach, are charter companies,

which, for example, offer business travelers flights in private jets.

Helicopters from the Hessian police squadron are also stationed here.