Aviation pilot school "S"
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Aviation pilot school "S" |
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| active | June 10, 1956 to September 30, 1978 |
| Country | Germany |
| Armed forces | armed forces |
| Armed forces | air force |
| structure | 3 training groups |
| Location | Wunstorf Air Base |
| Former locations | Uetersen, Memmingen, Mengen-Hohentengen, Friedrichshafen, Neubiberg |
| School commander | |
| Last school commander | Colonel Theodor Zillober |
| Aircraft | |
| education | Piper L-18 , Bell 47 , Piaggio P.149 , Dornier Thu 27 |
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Transport aircraft / helicopter |
North Noratlas , Percival Pembroke , Transall C-160 , Bristol Sycamore , Sikorsky H-34 , Vertol H-21 |
The pilot school "S" (short FFS "S" ) was an aeronautical training facility of the German Air Force , whose mission it was to train the crews of transport aircraft and helicopters . It existed from 1956 to 1978 and then merged with the 62 Air Transport Wing that was again set up .
history
Analogous to the pilot schools “A” ( Landsberg am Lech ) and “B” ( Fürstenfeldbruck ), which carried out the training of pilots for jet aircraft , the Federal Ministry of Defense set up the pilot school “S” with effect from June 10, 1956 To ensure training in the field of transport aircraft and helicopters. At that time, the training took place with the support of Allied soldiers, but entirely in Germany.
With the installation order No. 15, the Uetersen Air Base in Schleswig-Holstein was determined as the first location , but Memmingen was already planned as the final location at this time , to which the FFS "S" moved at the beginning of August 1956. For crew training school over three training possessed stagger (from November 1958 Education Group), which shared the different configurations:
 
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Stations of the FFS “S” in Germany; the only short-term airfields Mengen-Hohentengen , Friedrichshafen and Neubiberg are marked with a green dot. |
- Training group A - Basic aviation training on the Piper L-18 and Piaggio P.149 models
- Training group B - instrument flight training on the types Nord Noratlas and Percival Pembroke
- Training group C - helicopter training
The school was supported by the Armée de l'Air and the Royal Air Force .
Because of the limited space in Memmingen, the decision was made to relocate the samples, e.g. B. to carry out the training of the Do-27 pilots of the army in Friedrichshafen , while the training group B trained from Neubiberg , before it was decided to move the group B in October 1958 to the time of the Third Reich and in the post-war period by the Royal Air Force used to relocate Wunstorf Air Base near Hanover . Training group C continued the training in Faßberg , Memmingen was then the location of Fighter-Bomber Squadron 34 until 2003 , training group A in Diepholz was still responsible for the initial aviation training.
In addition to the training assignment, the FFS “S” also performed regular transport missions, for example during the flood disaster in Hamburg in 1962 . In 1963, the training group A was dissolved, as it had been decided in the meantime to train the pilots of the Air Force and Navy for transport aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft at the Lufthansa Commercial Aviation School in Bremen ; Only after completing this training is there further training in the military units. This form of training has existed since August 1, 1960 and is continued to this day.
Group C, responsible for helicopter training, was later transferred to the Air Force Helicopter Driving School (HFSLw), moved to the Ahlhorn site and dissolved in 1975 in favor of training in the United States ; Like today's International Helicopter Training Center in Bückeburg, it not only trained helicopter drivers for the Bundeswehr, but also for the Federal Border Police, the police forces of the federal states and friendly states.
From 1969 onwards, the newly introduced Transall C-160 transport aircraft was trained in Wunstorf , and in 1970 the twin-engine Dornier Do 28D “Skyservant” was added to the fleet for instrument flight training . By 1976 the FFS “S” had trained 9,130 pilots in 155,000 flight hours. In 1978 the end came for the FFS "S" in its previous form, it was re-established on October 1, 1978 as the "second" Lufttransportgeschwader 62 (the first so-called association was dissolved in 1971) and continued to hold its teaching position. The training in Bremen was continued as the 4th squadron of the squadron.
School coat of arms
The aircraft pilot school "S" used a coat of arms consisting of the lettering "FFS 'S'" at the top and a three-part section with a falcon (training group A), the figure of Hans Huckebein by Wilhelm Busch (training group B) and a dragonfly ( Training group C). Later a coat of arms was carried exclusively with the crow Hans Huckebein, which was later taken over by LTG 62, whereby only the designation "FFS 'S" on a yellow background was changed to "LTG 62".
School commanders
| Surname | Beginning | The End | Remarks |
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| Colonel Heise | July 16, 1956 | December 31, 1958 | |
| Colonel Joachim Poetter | January 1, 1959 | September 30, 1961 | |
| Colonel Horst Merkwitz | October 1, 1961 | January 15, 1963 | |
| Colonel Herbert stairs | January 16, 1963 | August 24, 1964 | |
| Colonel Karl Horst Meyer to the field | August 28, 1964 | April 1, 1970 | |
| Colonel Siegfried Gottschalt | April 1, 1970 | September 30, 1972 | |
| Colonel Werner Drechsel | 1st October 1972 | March 31, 1973 | Then to the readiness for flight of the Federal Ministry of Defense |
| Colonel Horst Naumann | April 1, 1973 | May 1st, 1975 | |
| Colonel Heinrich Mayerhofer | May 1st, 1975 | unknown | Accident |
| Lieutenant Colonel Claus Kemme | unknown | November 10, 1975 | Transitional |
| Colonel Theodor Zillober | November 10, 1975 | September 30, 1978 | Until the dissolution of the association commander |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Gerhard Lang: Transall . 1st edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-613-03713-7 , pp. 102-103 .
- ↑ Norbert Siats: 50 years of pilot training with Lufthansa. In: luftwaffe.de. Luftwaffe, September 17, 2010, accessed November 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Felix Troschier: A legend is retiring: Flyout of the Bell UH-1D in the Air Force - Helicopter Driving School of the Air Force. In: rth.info. rth.info - Faszination Luftrettung, February 4, 2013, accessed on October 14, 2015 .
