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Saarbrücken Airport

Photo of the airport: Leander Jost, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Saarbrücken Airport is a remote tower: cameras and sensors at the airport feed controllers who work somewhere else. Operational since 4 December 2018, when a Luxair flight was the first aircraft controlled remotely from Leipzig.

What the sources say

Operational since 4 December 2018, when a Luxair flight was the first aircraft controlled remotely from Leipzig.https://eu-lac-app.eu/public/uploads/DFS_Projekt_RTC_20231024_eng.pdf

Timeline

4 Dec 2018
Remote operation began; about 450 km from Leipzig

Connections

Lines join each airport to the centre that controls it. Basemap: OpenStreetMap data via Protomaps.

controlled from: DFS Remote Tower Control Center Leipzig Frequentis DFS and DFS Aviation Services

Other sites in Germany

DFS Remote Tower Control Center Leipzig Erfurt-Weimar Airport Dresden Airport DFS Aviation Services Remote Tower Center Niedersachsen Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport Emden Airport Munich Airport (validation virtual tower) Garrison Katterbach (US Army)

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At a glance

ICAO: EDDR
Country: Germany
Type: Remote tower
Vendor: Frequentis
Provider: DFS
Status: Operational
Position: 49.215, 7.110

Sources

1 public source: eu-lac-app.eu.

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