Brumowski Air Base

Brumowski Air Base
Characteristics
ICAO code	LOXT
Coordinates	48 ° 19 '16 " N , 16 ° 6' 43" E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '16 " N , 16 ° 6' 43" E
Height above MSL	180 m (591 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	30 km northwest of Vienna
Runways
08/26	1400 m × 80 m concrete
08/26	960 m × 30 m grass
13/31	900 m × 30 m grass
05/23	750 m × 30 m grass

The Brumowski Air Base is a military airfield with barracks of the air forces of the Austrian Armed Forces in Langenlebarn in Lower Austria. This is where the air support squadron and Fliegerwerft 1 are located.

Emergence

The Federal Army of the 1st Republic was already planning a military airfield in the Tulln Basin east of the city of Tulln on the Danube and south of the Franz-Josefs-Bahn near Langenlebarn .

The finished plans attacked the air force and began after the annexation of Austria in September 1938 with the construction of the air base . Since the local population has been committed to help you, already existed on March 8, 1939, the topping-out ceremony . In addition to the buildings required for flight and barracks operations, a settlement for members of the Air Force and outside airfields for exercise operations were built outside the air base.

The main task of the new air base was training during the war, too. The “ Aircraft Driver School (FFS) A / B 112 Tulln”, the “ Air War School 7 - Tulln” and, for a short time, the “FFS 114 Zwölfaxing” and the “Fliegeranwärter-Bataillon 114” were here stationed. But also some active airborne units were temporarily here. From May to June 1942 the II./StG 2 (II. Group of the Sturzkampfgeschwader 2) and in March 1944 the III./KG 30 (III. Group of the Kampfgeschwader 30) were stationed here.

Despite the heavy air strikes on the city of Vienna in the east and the armaments factories in the west of Tulln ( Moosbierbaum hydration plant ), Langenlebarn was late in being the target of fighter-bomber attacks. In mid-March 1945 the planes were therefore relocated to the west.

End of war and occupation

Memorial stone

After the Red Army had reached Tullnerfeld on April 7, the Waffen SS blew up major parts of the air base. On the same day, the air base , to which the “ Luftkriegsschule 3” of the German Air Force had been relocated from Oschatz airfield in Saxony , was conquered by the Red Army. The north bank of the Danube remained in the hands of the German Wehrmacht until the end of the war. The Langenlebarn barracks was also damaged in the case of artillery duels across the Danube.

In July 1945, US troops were assigned to the airport located in the Soviet occupation zone. The connection route between the US Air Force Station Tulln - Vienna and the city of Vienna occupied by all four allies was contractually agreed. In November a relay of transport machines was relocated to Langenlebarn. The airfield was used both militarily and civilly. Four civil airlines flew to “Tulln Air Base”, as the airfield was named for the rest of the occupation . One of them was Pan American World Airways (PanAm), which made scheduled flights between New York and Langenlebarn from June 1946 .

Prominent air passengers were e.g. B. Robert Stolz and Hanns Eisler in 1946, who ended up here after returning from their emigration from the United States. John Foster Dulles , then US Secretary of State , came to sign the State Treaty in 1955 .

Federal Army

Godwin Brumowski (left) with Frank Linke-Crawford in front of his Oeffag D.III, Torresella airfield for Flik 41J ( kuk aviation troops ), December 1917

As a result of the conclusion of the state treaty of May 15, 1955, the airfield began to be cleared. It was taken over on September 30, 1955 by the future air force of the Republic of Austria.

During the ten years of occupation , the US troops had only done what was absolutely necessary to maintain the airfield, much was still destroyed, so that not only the Austrian air force but also the air base itself had to be rebuilt.

The first take-off from the air base took place on December 9, 1955 by Lieutenant Colonel Gustav Hauck with a Jak-18 with the identification 3A-AB .

In 1967 the barracks were named Brumowski Langenlebarn-Tulln Air Base . It was named after Godwin Brumowski , the most successful fighter pilot in Austria-Hungary in World War I, who then flew the only air raid by the armed forces in the Austrian civil war against the Goethehof in Vienna , although it is unclear in what form this took place or what effects were achieved.

The Federal College for Aviation Technology has been located on the area of the Brumowski Air Base since the school year 1968/69 and trains aircraft technicians for both the military and the civilian sector.

Since 2007, all of the air force schools that were initially distributed in Austria have been grouped together in Langenlebarn. As of May 2011, eight Alouette III , eleven Bell OH-58 , nine Sikorsky S-70 helicopters and 13 Pilatus PC-6s are stationed in Langenlebarn.

Accidents

On May 28, 1963, a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 crashed a few hundred meters from the runway into a grain field and was completely destroyed. The pilot, the doctor at the air base and four basic soldiers from the Langenlebarn medical facility were killed.
On September 24, 1999, a Learjet 36A from the Ärzteflugambulanz GmbH shot against the approved direction (08 instead of 26) with a tailwind over the runway during landing. Crew and passengers were uninjured; the aircraft was severely damaged.

Others

The Tulln-Langenlebarn airfield race took place here between 1966 and 1979 . 20,000 visitors came to the Formula 2 race on July 16, 1967 , in which Jack Brabham and Jim Clark , among others, took part - Jochen Rindt won this race.

On September 6, 1975 a flight day took place on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the air force. The ace of spades - aerobatic team starts for the first time.

Nearby is the TUN radio beacon for an international airway .

literature

Hubert Prigl: The history of the Langenlebarn Air Base from 1936 to 2000 . Dissertation. Ed .: University of Vienna. Vienna 1993 ( abridged version as website , gotech.at).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ bundesheer.at - Armed Forces - Air Force - Air Support

↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935–45 Austria (1937 Borders) , pp. 18–19 , accessed on September 4, 2014

↑ Military Aviation 2007 ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 623 kB) of October 14, 2007, accessed on November 21, 2009 @1@ 2

^ Kurt Peball: The fighting in Vienna in February 1934 . Austrian Federal Publishers, 1974. p. 36

↑ 3B-GA , gotech.at

↑ Harro Ranter: Air accident 24 SEP 1999 of a Learjet 36A OE-GMD - Tulln / Langenlebarn-Brumowski Air Base. Retrieved March 12, 2018 .

[1] undesheer.at - Armed Forces - Air Force - Air Support

[2] Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935–45 Austria (1937 Borders) , pp. 18–19 , accessed on September 4, 2014