Neuburg Air Base
| Neuburg Air Base | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | ETSN | ||
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| Height above MSL | 380 m (1247 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 3 km southeast of Neuburg an der Donau | ||
| Street | Bundesstrasse 16 | ||
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| opening | 1936/1961 | ||
| operator | armed forces | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 09/27 | 2440 m × 30 m asphalt | ||
The Neuburg Air Base , sometimes airbase cell , is a German military airfield . It is located in the area of the city of Neuburg an der Donau in the Upper Bavarian district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen , about 20 kilometers west-southwest of Ingolstadt . The main user has been the Tactical Air Force Wing 74 since 1961 . Although Neuburg is the smallest fighter aircraft base of the Bundeswehr, the air base was practically unaffected by the Bundeswehr reform announced in 2011.
The air base, west of the village of Zell , includes the Wilhelm Frankl barracks, which was built in the 1960s on the eastern outskirts of Neuburg an der Donau.
history
The history of military aviation in Neuburg goes back to 1912, when a military aircraft landed on the parade ground in Neuburg for the first time .
In 1935, began as part of the Nazi regime operated the Wehrmacht upgrade the construction of a new air base at cell on which the Air Force the following year took up the school system. The facility, known as the "Fliegerwaffenschule" (aviation school) from 1937, was equipped with a Dornier Do 23 , Focke-Wulf Fw 56 and Junkers Ju 52 , among others . In the following year the "Blindflugschule 2 (C)" was added. The construction of the airfield dragged on until the Second World War . The area was larger than that of the later NATO air base. In addition to a complex of accommodation and administration buildings (in the north-west of the site, not far from the eastern edge of Marienheim ), this included aircraft parking spaces in loosening areas in the north-east and south-west. During the Second World War , the site increasingly housed task forces such as the II. Group of the 6th Night Fighter Squadron in 1943 . Towards the end of the war, the air base also served as a base for jet-powered Me 262 fighters. From December 1944, the I. Group of Kampfgeschwader 40 was stationed here to be trained on this aircraft type. This new type of threat caught the attention of the Allied target planning in the bombing war : the attacks of the 8th and 15th Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces on March 19, 21 and 24, 1945 almost completely destroyed the area. After being captured by the Americans, the airfield was given the Allied code designation R-60 .
In the course of the rearmament , the Zell base was to become the home of an air force squadron of the newly founded Bundeswehr . The Tactical Air Force Wing 74 was set up in 1961 as Jagdgeschwader 74 in Neuburg and has been a user of the air base in Neuburg for over 50 years. The runway was renovated from spring 2014 to autumn 2015; the fighter squadron flew from Lechfeld air base at this time .
Others
1967 trio stole Manfred Ramminger a Sidewinder missile from the grounds of the air base and sent them dismantled by mail to Moscow to KGB .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Zapf: Airfields of the Air Force 1934-1945 and what was left of them - Volume 9: Bavaria - Luftgau VII - Munich . Verlag VDM Heinz Nickel, 2015 (p. 428–440)
- ↑ USAAF Combat Operations, March 1945 (accessed June 28, 2018)
- ↑ Eurofighter back in Neuburg , accessed on November 22, 2015