Cham

49°12'40"N 012°39'30"E

runway: 10/28 - 600x6m - Asphalt (with 400m overrun for glider winching)

Air field Cham, (german: Flugplatz Cham or Flugplatz Cham-Janahof) is a small airfield one kilometer south of Cham in Bavaria, Germany.
The airfield was built around 1960 when the local glider club was founded, and is not to be confused with the World War II Einsatzhafen Cham. The airfield has a single narrow (6meter) asphalt runway of 600meter length, with an extension of 400meters for winch operations, and turning loops on both ends of the runway.

In 1999 the airfield was the scene of an accident when during a small air fete a homebuilt Cri-Cri twin aircraft crashed, killing the pilot.


Cham on approach from the east in 2008


View of the runway heading 28


Cham must have one of the smallest, if not the smallest, control towers in the world!