Lubin airfield

Lubin airfield
Characteristics
ICAO code	EPLU
Coordinates	51 ° 25 '25 " N , 16 ° 11' 41" E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '25 " N , 16 ° 11' 41" E
Height above MSL	156 m (512 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	3 km north of Lubin
Basic data
opening	1936
operator	Aeroklub Zagłębia Miedziowego
Runways
13/31	1000 m × 30 m concrete
11/29	1100 m × 200 m grass

Lubin airfield

The airfield Lubin is an airfield in the now Polish city of Lubin ( German Lüben ) in Lower Silesia. From 1936 to 1945, as Lüben Air Base , it was an air base of the Wehrmacht Air Force .

history

Lüben Air Base was first created as a landing site in 1936 and expanded into Operation Port I in 1939. The runway was grassy.

In the north of the air base there were one large and two medium-sized aircraft hangars. Various functional and workshop buildings were grouped around the hangars. More barracks were set up in the northwest corner. As the first flying unit here, from April 1937, the IV./KG z. b. V. 1, stationed with their Junkers Ju 52. From 1940 to 1944 various pilot schools were also housed here.

The following table shows a list of all active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1939 and 1945.

From	To	unit	equipment
September 1939	September 1939	IV./KG z. b. V. 1 (IV. Group of the Combat Squadron for Special Use 1)	Junkers Ju 52 / 3m
February 1941	June 1941	III./KG 53	Heinkel He 111
October 1944	October 1944	I./SG 1 (I. Group of the battle squadron 1)

On January 28, 1945, units of the 1st Ukrainian Front occupied the area of the air base , which then served as a front airfield for fighter units of the Soviet air forces . In February of that year, the 2nd Guards Fighter Regiment, equipped with La-7 , operated from there . It was followed in March by the 5th Guards Fighter Regiment with La-5 . After the end of the war, the site was not used for flying purposes for a while and served as a training area. It was only used for its original purpose in the 1960s. It is now a purely civil airfield.

Individual evidence

↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , p 409 , accessed on September 23, 2014.
^ Stefan Büttner: Red places . Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994. Fliegerhorste – Aerodorme – Military fallow areas. Ed .: Lutz Freundt. AeroLit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , pp. 21 .

[1] Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , p 409 , accessed on September 23, 2014.

[2] Stefan Büttner: Red places . Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994. Fliegerhorste – Aerodorme – Military fallow areas. Ed .: Lutz Freundt. AeroLit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , pp. 21 .