In addition, it is the base of Christoph 54, the emergency rescue and intensive care helicopter of the DRF Luftrettung, which is part of the German air medical services.

Among those are flights for exhibitors and visitors of the Messe Freiburg, for guests on TV-Shows or sporting events, and also for the transport of organs of the university hospital.

The aerodrome was established on the site of a military parade ground in the northwest of the city, in the district of Brühl.

Opponents of the airport wanted to use the area for housing development and denounced the noise of the French Army Aviation.

3922/91 of 16 December 1991 on the harmonization of technical regulations and administrative procedures in civil aviation[3]), only small or light aircraft were able to land on the existing runway as of 2005, which also affected organ transplant flights for the Freiburg-University-Hospital.

[5] As part of the Pope’s visit to Germany in 2011, Benedict XVI celebrated a large closing service with 100,000 people on the western area of the airfield on September 25, 2011.

In November 2014, the municipal council decided with a clear majority that the SC-Stadion should be built there, although more detailed reports on flight safety have not yet been completed.

According to the preliminary report, despite the stadium’s location near the hardsurfaced runway, even in adverse wind conditions, there will be no significant restrictions on pure powered flight operations.

Nevertheless, Flugplatz Freiburg-Breisgau GmbH makes an annual loss of a substantial five-digit amount, which is compensated by municipal funds.