Essen/Mülheim Airport | |
Iata: | ESS |
Icao: | EDLE |
Type: | Public |
City-Served: | Mülheim/Essen and the eastern Rhine-Ruhr area, Germany |
Metric-Elev: | y |
Elevation-M: | 129 |
Coordinates: | 51.4033°N 6.94°W |
Mapframe: | yes |
Website: | flughafen-essen-muelheim.de |
Pushpin Map: | Germany North Rhine-Westphalia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in North Rhine-Westphalia |
Pushpin Label: | ESS |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 06/24 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,553 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Source: German AIP at Eurocontrol[1] |
Essen/Mülheim Airport, is a minor unscheduled airport located 6km (04miles) south-west of Essen and 3km (02miles) south-east[1] of Mülheim, North Rhine-Westphalia. It serves the western Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany.
There are no scheduled flights to or from the airport, it is mainly used for flight training, general aviation and business charters. The nearest passenger airports are Düsseldorf Airport and Dortmund Airport. Essen/Mülheim is home to blimps used for aerial advertising.