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Zwickau airfield festival celebrates comeback: unique aviation show!
After a five-year break, Zwickau is celebrating the airfield festival on September 3rd, 2023. A special event to mark the 100th anniversary of the festival.
Zwickau airfield festival celebrates comeback: unique aviation show!
After a long break of five years, an airfield festival recently took place again in Zwickau. The new edition of the event was necessary to celebrate the airfield's 100th birthday. Joachim Lenk, the chairman of the Aero Club and also the airport boss, had shied away from further celebrations until recently. He cited the annoyances that occurred at the last festival in 2021 as the reason. At the time, non-paying guests caused frustration, and around 3,000 people watched the air show outside the festival grounds without paying. Lenk then announced that he no longer wanted to organize another festival, but the celebrations for the milestone anniversary left him no choice, even if he had mixed feelings about the event , reports the Free Press.
This year's airfield festival finally went ahead after being postponed twice and attracted around 4,000 paying visitors. Despite the joy of the large number of participants, there were some downsides. Fog affected some pilots' approaches, reducing the program and causing delays. Joachim Lenk expressed his satisfaction with the number of visitors, but at the same time he regretted the high number of at least 500 onlookers who watched for free , reports flieger.news.
The community aspect of aviation
One of the main goals of events like the airfield festival is exchange and networking among private pilots and aviation enthusiasts. On sites like mein-flugziel.de You will find an extensive calendar of events for general aviation, which includes not only airport festivals, but also fly-ins, pilot meetings and aviation seminars. The platform helps to support leisure activities and flight planning and ensures a lively exchange within the pilot community.
Overall, it remains to be seen whether Joachim Lenk will organize another airport festival in the future. The experiences from this year are certainly crucial. Despite the challenges associated with the event, the high number of visitors and interest in aviation shows that such celebrations are very popular. The aviation community has a knack for continuing to plan exciting events that promote both education and shared passion.