Publications
Book series Development of air navigation services in Germany
The book series documents the development of air traffic control in Germany and Europe up to 1990 in a multi-volume work and offers a unique and in-depth insight into the history and working methods of air traffic control. The series was mainly penned by ANSA founder and board member Frank W. Fischer and is aimed at interested parties and experts in air traffic management. Since 2024, the series has been made available free of charge (open access) in collaboration with the specialised information service for mobility and transport research at the following link
▶ https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-922287
The first volume examines the development of air traffic control services from 1919 to 1945, a period in which Germany made a significant contribution to global air traffic control. The second volume describes the establishment of air traffic control centres under military authority after 1945 and their influence on modern european air traffic control. The third volume focuses on Rhein UAC, an air traffic control centre for the whole upper airspace of southern Germany, which operated between 1957 and 1968 from Birkenfeld -Nahe and thereafter until 1977 from Frankfurt/Main. Rhein UAC now operates from the city of Karlsruhe. The fourth volume describes air traffic control operation in the former GDR in detail, including the Berlin Airlift and Interflug. The fifth volume describes the everyday working life of an air traffic controller during the Cold War. The sixth volume, based on Georg Maier's draft, discusses civil-military co-operation in air traffic control in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1955 onwards. The seventh volume contains a translation of the book 'Highways in the Sky' and an analysis of the Army Airways Communication Service - AACS after 1945.
Besides the digital publication, the books are also available in printed form in libraries.
Further documents and publications on air traffic control
Throughout the history of ANSA, a wide range of documents and materials (e.g. audio recordings, maps and images) have been saved and archived. This extensive collection of sources formed the basis for over 100 articles on the subject of air navigation services, which have appeared in German and English-language international journals, among others. An extract from this collection can be found at www.flugsicherung-ansa.de. The document contains information on 68 source documents on the tasks and services of the air navigation services system, its rules and procedures, organisations as well as authorities, publications, deficiencies and incidents.
The main holdings of the ANSA archive, which mainly related to air traffic control, were transferred to the German National Library (DNB) in Leipzig, the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) and the Technical Information Library (TIB) in Hanover between 2010 and 2020. The rest of the archive is currently in the process of being closed down. Enquiries can be made to the ANSA.
