Reply to @animebirder: It still has no ICAO designator. EHMM is used by home based pilots for logbook purposes, but as long as the code is not published in the AIP it is not officially.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the main international airport of the Netherlands. It is located 9 kilometres southwest of Amsterdam, in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the province of North Holland. It is the world's third busiest airport by international passenger traffic in 2021. With almost 72 million passengers in 2019, it is the third-busiest airport in Europe in terms of passenger volume and the busiest in Europe in terms of aircraft movements. With an annual cargo tonnage of 1.74 million, it is the 4th busiest in Europe. AMS covers a total area of 6,887 acres of land. The airport is built on the single-terminal concept: one large terminal split into three large departure halls.
Schiphol is the hub for KLM and its regional affiliate KLM Cityhopper as well as for Corendon Dutch Airlines, Martinair, Transavia and TUI fly Netherlands. The airport also serves as a base for EasyJet.
Schiphol opened on 16 September 1916 as a military airbase. The end of the First World War also saw the beginning of civilian use of Schiphol Airport and the airport eventually lost its military role completely. By 1940, Schiphol had four asphalt runways at 45-degree angles. The airport was captured by the German military that same year and renamed Fliegerhorst Schiphol. The airport was destroyed through bombing but at the end of the war, the airfield was soon rebuilt. In 1949, it was decided that Schiphol was to become the primary airport of the Netherlands. Schiphol Airport was voted the Best Airport in Western Europe in 2020.
I've traveled to and through here quite a bit over the past few years, because of work. It's an OK terminal, but it's not designed for you to linger anywhere (until your gate is open). Just keep moving.
Also, food vendors ask to see your boarding pass, which is a bit strange.
Train connections are excellent. Don't even *think* about getting into Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, etc any other way.
This gliding field is no more, and the gliding club has move
After the gliding club based at Den Helder Naval Station ("de Kooy") was forced to find a new place to fly due to increasing off-shore helicopter traffic based at this NAS as well, the club found this farmer's field in Middenmeer (Wieringermeer). This glider-only field has now been decommissioned after utilities company Nuon took an interest in their field to put up a few windmills and made an offer to move the entire club and its operations to a new field just south of Hypolitushoef. Brand new field, facilities, all of it, very nice. The new addres is Hippolytushoeverweg 15a, 1774 MK Slootdorp, Netherlands and they can be reached on w3-zweef-nl or +31 6 22537070.
Firm gras strip, also when wet. Fuel station with avgas, mogas and Jet A-1. Very good restaurant. Lovely flying area. Perfect field for a jump to or from the UK .
We arrived at 6:45 am and the bathrooms were unclean. I was excited to return to the US via Europe from Africa especially for the bathrooms. But your bathrooms were unclean and many were not working! Also, when you remodel you need to make more women's bathrooms -the lines were crazy long. I was just bewildered that your bathrooms were this poor.
Unbelievably to strict and obtrusive! Rude and unnessasary! I won't recommend going to Netherlands if people are that rude! I won't ever come thru this airport again either!!!
Excellent airport, specially for connecting flights. The facilities are very well maintained and is well designed (not very big). I recommend this website: http://www.amsterdam-airport.com
I live in Ypenburg, built where there was a military airport until 1990. The air control tower is still there at the end of my street as monument and memory to the old airfield, and many street names refer to airports or aviation.
In august 2011 I flew as a passenger in the Texel-based historic Antonov AN-2 with the founder of the Texel Scool of Skydiving, Bob Rienks. I flew in to Texel in 1995 with a Cessna C-172 from France (LFIH). A very cosy airfield with a restaurant, hotel and a museum and a lot of visitors coming from England, Germany or farther away.
Rotterdam airport is interest for private pilots, as it has commercial (mainly 737, F27) and GA (business and private) traffic. There are a number of flying clubs based there, one of which is the largest in the Netherlands with 20 aircraft.
This morning, Turkish Airlines flight 1951, a Boeing 737, made what appears to be a forced landing in a field 1.5 nm short of runway 18R at Schipol. Most of the passengers survived, but there were nine fatalities:
This is a small airport, situated extremely close to the village of Drachten. A small caveat is that only 26 is open for GA. 08 is only for MLA traffic nowadays.
An airport official at the office told us later that 08 might be used by GA-traffic, but only after permission and instructions from the tower and that landings should be done at the threshold (this is very tricky because of the trees at the beginning of 08).
Furthermore if you're entering from the south you may enter the circuit from the east, but again only with permission from the tower (or you could ask for a straight in, but that's not so much of a fun).
I visited Schiphol for the second time in 2006. It was simple, fast, and well-organized, with virtually no waiting time for customs. Easy and inexpensive to get into Amsterdam (or to other parts of Holland) by rail. Coming from North America, you're far better connecting here than Heathrow for visiting the continent.
I often visit this airport, and I always feel comfortable, since everything is well-organised. There has been a period that to passing security check-in took long cueing, but that also seems to be resolved by now.
I used to work here (landside, at a business totally unrelated to aviation). As an airport it's nice (much smaller than Schiphol) and pretty efficient; while working flight crew members walking by the window and the smell of jet fuel were the biggest reminders of being at an airport.
Excellent hub airport. So many people go through there in transit and it's well set up for it. Even after 9/11, I was able to easily leave the airport for a tour of Amsterdam and come back with litlle hassle. Even the attractions at the airport are nice.
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re: Previous note applies to NL-0041
🔗 Sat, 24 Feb 2024
— @EHHV31 at Middenmeer Airfield, Netherlands
Reply to @animebirder: It still has no ICAO designator. EHMM is used by home based pilots for logbook purposes, but as long as the code is not published in the AIP it is not officially.
Previous note applies to NL-0041
🔗 Tue, 21 Nov 2023
— @animebirder at Middenmeer Airfield, Netherlands
See subject line. This airfield is the currently active field and now has an ICAO code.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
🔗 Sat, 05 Nov 2022
— @Silvanus_Tauris at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the main international airport of the Netherlands. It is located 9 kilometres southwest of Amsterdam, in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the province of North Holland. It is the world's third busiest airport by international passenger traffic in 2021. With almost 72 million passengers in 2019, it is the third-busiest airport in Europe in terms of passenger volume and the busiest in Europe in terms of aircraft movements. With an annual cargo tonnage of 1.74 million, it is the 4th busiest in Europe. AMS covers a total area of 6,887 acres of land. The airport is built on the single-terminal concept: one large terminal split into three large departure halls.
Schiphol is the hub for KLM and its regional affiliate KLM Cityhopper as well as for Corendon Dutch Airlines, Martinair, Transavia and TUI fly Netherlands. The airport also serves as a base for EasyJet.
Schiphol opened on 16 September 1916 as a military airbase. The end of the First World War also saw the beginning of civilian use of Schiphol Airport and the airport eventually lost its military role completely. By 1940, Schiphol had four asphalt runways at 45-degree angles. The airport was captured by the German military that same year and renamed Fliegerhorst Schiphol. The airport was destroyed through bombing but at the end of the war, the airfield was soon rebuilt. In 1949, it was decided that Schiphol was to become the primary airport of the Netherlands. Schiphol Airport was voted the Best Airport in Western Europe in 2020.
cool
🔗 Fri, 15 Apr 2022
— @feitidede at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
it ok!!
Keywords: Aachen
🔗 Wed, 02 Mar 2022
— @JPS at Ameland Airport Ballum, Netherlands
This airport has nothing to do with Aachen.
Please remove that keyword.
Thanks!
De Voorst ICAO code
🔗 Sat, 14 Nov 2020
— @Frits at De Voorst Glidersite, Netherlands
Glider Field De Voorst has been allocated ICAO code EHDV
Gliderclub closed
🔗 Sat, 23 May 2020
— @avgeeklucky at Glider Field Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
Glider Field & club closed due to placement of wind turbines.
https://www.hartvannederland.nl/nieuws/2019/zweefvliegclub-flevo-uit-biddinghuizen-moet-plaatsmaken-voor-windmolenpark/
(no subject)
🔗 Mon, 20 Apr 2020
— @Jan_Olieslagers at Stadskanaal Airfield, Netherlands
Reported to now also accept larger planes, up to 890 kg
https://www.pilotundflugzeug.de/forum/2020,04,20,16,3744136
Offshore wind farm
🔗 Thu, 14 Nov 2019
— @david at Buitengaats / BG-OHVS2 Helipad, Netherlands
This platform is part of an offshore North Sea wind farm with a planned 600 MW capacity.
Don't linger
🔗 Wed, 31 Jul 2019
— @david at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
I've traveled to and through here quite a bit over the past few years, because of work. It's an OK terminal, but it's not designed for you to linger anywhere (until your gate is open). Just keep moving.
Also, food vendors ask to see your boarding pass, which is a bit strange.
Train connections are excellent. Don't even *think* about getting into Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, etc any other way.
This gliding field is no more, and the gliding club has move
🔗 Fri, 10 May 2019
— Anonymous Flyer at Middenmeer Airfield, Netherlands
After the gliding club based at Den Helder Naval Station ("de Kooy") was forced to find a new place to fly due to increasing off-shore helicopter traffic based at this NAS as well, the club found this farmer's field in Middenmeer (Wieringermeer). This glider-only field has now been decommissioned after utilities company Nuon took an interest in their field to put up a few windmills and made an offer to move the entire club and its operations to a new field just south of Hypolitushoef. Brand new field, facilities, all of it, very nice. The new addres is Hippolytushoeverweg 15a, 1774 MK Slootdorp, Netherlands and they can be reached on w3-zweef-nl or +31 6 22537070.
The best green airfield
🔗 Mon, 19 Nov 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Midden-Zeeland Airfield, Netherlands
Firm gras strip, also when wet. Fuel station with avgas, mogas and Jet A-1. Very good restaurant. Lovely flying area. Perfect field for a jump to or from the UK .
Wonderful field
🔗 Fri, 29 Jun 2018
— @DanDR at Ameland Airport Ballum, Netherlands
Nice field to visit, very friendly and helpful people
Runway changed
🔗 Sun, 18 Feb 2018
— @Gerrit at Teuge Airport, Netherlands
Now 08-26
Best transit airport in the world
🔗 Mon, 23 Oct 2017
— @Jogge at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
in my opinion, everything run above standard, security, immigration, connections and transfer service, restaurants, shops, areas to rest etc.
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🔗 Sun, 02 Jul 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
Danger here night shoot out here
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🔗 Tue, 20 Jun 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Maastricht Aachen Airport, Netherlands
Bolt here come grass under cà rr tyre surrounding electrified lights. Cooler here Elizabeth Here
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🔗 Mon, 05 Jun 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Glider Field Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
Here Soniagandhi all her families located at all airports fake calls on taking airport s into control false police with
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🔗 Fri, 31 Mar 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at De Peel Air Base, Netherlands
Nagalaxshmi IAS NEED SAFETYBELTS..CUSHION SEATING..FLYING PROOOF MATERIALS. HELMETS.. ROPES..LONGJUMP..BUCKETS.. AEROPLANE TOWELS. FLYINGKITS ALL NECESSARY ...INTIMATE MOM ALSO...
Not in use anymore
🔗 Sat, 25 Feb 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands
Not in use anymore, only a museum is still at the site: Nationaal Militair Museum
Runway
🔗 Tue, 31 Jan 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Teuge Airport, Netherlands
Runway 09/27 changed to 08/26
Rotterdam The Hague Airport
🔗 Wed, 13 Apr 2016
— Anonymous Flyer at Rotterdam The Hague Airport, Netherlands
Since 2010 the official name is Rotterdam The Hague Airport, but by many locals still referred to the airport as Vliegveld Zestienhoven.
Bathrooms not clean
🔗 Mon, 21 Mar 2016
— Anonymous Flyer at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
We arrived at 6:45 am and the bathrooms were unclean. I was excited to return to the US via Europe from Africa especially for the bathrooms. But your bathrooms were unclean and many were not working! Also, when you remodel you need to make more women's bathrooms -the lines were crazy long. I was just bewildered that your bathrooms were this poor.
Security
🔗 Wed, 27 May 2015
— Anonymous Flyer at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
Unbelievably to strict and obtrusive! Rude and unnessasary! I won't recommend going to Netherlands if people are that rude! I won't ever come thru this airport again either!!!
Wrong information
🔗 Fri, 17 Apr 2015
— Anonymous Flyer at De Voorst Glidersite, Netherlands
This field is not located in Gelderland but in Flevoland.
rwy: 05/23
854*37m
elevation 1 ft
Excellent airport
🔗 Thu, 19 Mar 2015
— @nanana at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
Excellent airport, specially for connecting flights. The facilities are very well maintained and is well designed (not very big). I recommend this website: http://www.amsterdam-airport.com
nice airport for microlite aircraft
🔗 Wed, 15 Oct 2014
— @buzzingbee at Stadskanaal Airfield, Netherlands
In the north of the Netherlands you find the largest MLA concentration.
Read more about this place at www.EHST.nl
Texel 2014
🔗 Thu, 03 Jul 2014
— @chrisparker at Texel International Airport, Netherlands
I visited in July 2014. Very friendly airport run by father and son team Ed and Mike. Landing fee and parking for three nights came to Euro 67.
Glider plane field
🔗 Wed, 30 Apr 2014
— Anonymous Flyer at Venlo Glidersite, Netherlands
This is the glider plane field used by the VZC (Venlose Zweefvlieg Club)
WW2 german nightfighter base
🔗 Wed, 30 Apr 2014
— Anonymous Flyer at Venlo-Herongen Air Base, Netherlands
This was a large WW2 german nightfighter base
Unmotorized gliders only
🔗 Mon, 17 Mar 2014
— Anonymous Flyer at Haamstede Glidersite, Netherlands
AF Available for unmotorized gliders only. Tarmac runway unusable.
Aerial View
🔗 Thu, 16 May 2013
— @americageo at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
Aerial View of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol http://www.topworldimages.com/Amsterdam_Airport_Schiphol.htm
runway
🔗 Tue, 16 Apr 2013
— Anonymous Flyer at Teuge Airport, Netherlands
runway 09/27
History
🔗 Mon, 19 Nov 2012
— @Bill35 at Buiksloot Airfield, Netherlands
http://www.ronaldv.nl/abandoned/airfields/nl/Airfields_NL_noord-holland.html#Buiksloot
Runway 03/21
🔗 Mon, 05 Nov 2012
— Anonymous Flyer at Teuge Airport, Netherlands
Runway 03/21 is not available any more since 2012.
A cosy "green" aerodrome, between Apeldoorn and Deventer
🔗 Mon, 05 Nov 2012
— Anonymous Flyer at Teuge Airport, Netherlands
This airfield was opened some 75 years ago and is one of the nicest (together with Texel Aerodrome!) in the Netherlands.
With a tarmak runway of 1199x27 meters it can handle bussiness jets too.
Come and see for yourself!!!
Great
🔗 Fri, 04 May 2012
— Anonymous Flyer at Breda International Airport, Netherlands
Was there in 2009. Very nice people, great flying club, nice restaurant. Will be back
Now a residential area
🔗 Sat, 14 Apr 2012
— @Ayan at Ypenburg Airbase, Netherlands
I live in Ypenburg, built where there was a military airport until 1990. The air control tower is still there at the end of my street as monument and memory to the old airfield, and many street names refer to airports or aviation.
Antonov AN-2
🔗 Tue, 18 Oct 2011
— @Rudolf at Texel International Airport, Netherlands
In august 2011 I flew as a passenger in the Texel-based historic Antonov AN-2 with the founder of the Texel Scool of Skydiving, Bob Rienks. I flew in to Texel in 1995 with a Cessna C-172 from France (LFIH). A very cosy airfield with a restaurant, hotel and a museum and a lot of visitors coming from England, Germany or farther away.
History
🔗 Sun, 02 Oct 2011
— @Bill35 at Bergen Airfield, Netherlands
http://www.ronaldv.nl/abandoned/airfields/NL/Airfields_NL_noord-holland.html#Bergen
History
🔗 Sat, 01 Oct 2011
— @Bill35 at Peest Airport, Netherlands
http://www.ronaldv.nl/abandoned/airfields/NL/Airfields_NL_Drenthe.html#Peest
KLM aeroclub
🔗 Sat, 08 May 2010
— Anonymous Flyer at Lelystad Airport, Netherlands
Best flying club at the airport !
Visit klmaeroclub.com
Schiphol Car Hire
🔗 Sun, 27 Dec 2009
— @edwarddickson at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
http://www.babacar.org/car-hire-netherlands/amsterdam-schiphol-airport-car-hire.htm
My home base
🔗 Sun, 03 May 2009
— Anonymous Flyer at Rotterdam The Hague Airport, Netherlands
Rotterdam airport is interest for private pilots, as it has commercial (mainly 737, F27) and GA (business and private) traffic. There are a number of flying clubs based there, one of which is the largest in the Netherlands with 20 aircraft.
Turkish Airlines Crash
🔗 Wed, 25 Feb 2009
— @david at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
This morning, Turkish Airlines flight 1951, a Boeing 737, made what appears to be a forced landing in a field 1.5 nm short of runway 18R at Schipol. Most of the passengers survived, but there were nine fatalities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_1951
Very flexible
🔗 Mon, 17 Nov 2008
— @PH-SAB at Drachten Airfield, Netherlands
This is a small airport, situated extremely close to the village of Drachten. A small caveat is that only 26 is open for GA. 08 is only for MLA traffic nowadays.
An airport official at the office told us later that 08 might be used by GA-traffic, but only after permission and instructions from the tower and that landings should be done at the threshold (this is very tricky because of the trees at the beginning of 08).
Furthermore if you're entering from the south you may enter the circuit from the east, but again only with permission from the tower (or you could ask for a straight in, but that's not so much of a fun).
Easy airport
🔗 Sun, 15 Jun 2008
— @david at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
I visited Schiphol for the second time in 2006. It was simple, fast, and well-organized, with virtually no waiting time for customs. Easy and inexpensive to get into Amsterdam (or to other parts of Holland) by rail. Coming from North America, you're far better connecting here than Heathrow for visiting the continent.
Good organised
🔗 Sun, 15 Jun 2008
— @PGJS at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
I often visit this airport, and I always feel comfortable, since everything is well-organised. There has been a period that to passing security check-in took long cueing, but that also seems to be resolved by now.
Former workplace
🔗 Sun, 19 Aug 2007
— @MathFox at Rotterdam The Hague Airport, Netherlands
I used to work here (landside, at a business totally unrelated to aviation). As an airport it's nice (much smaller than Schiphol) and pretty efficient; while working flight crew members walking by the window and the smell of jet fuel were the biggest reminders of being at an airport.
visitor friendly
🔗 Wed, 25 Jul 2007
— @doc at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
Excellent hub airport. So many people go through there in transit and it's well set up for it. Even after 9/11, I was able to easily leave the airport for a tour of Amsterdam and come back with litlle hassle. Even the attractions at the airport are nice.
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