Helicopter Training Squadron 35

Helicopter training squadron 35 "Lambert Horn" (HAG-35)
active	November 5, 1981 to  October 2, 1990
Country	GDR
Armed forces	National Peoples Army
Armed forces	Air Force
Squadron location	Brandenburg-Briest airfield
Last commander
Squadron commander	Major Peter Zahl
Aircraft
education	Mi-2 , Mi-8T , Mi-8PS

The Helicopter Training Wing 35 (HAG-35) was an association of the air forces of the East German NVA . It bore the honorary name Lambert Horn and was stationed at the Brandenburg-Briest airfield.

history

Brandenburg-Briest

Squadron location

With the commissioning of the first combat helicopter association of the NVA, Combat Helicopter Squadron 5 , in 1975, the scope of work of the helicopter squadron 34 , which is responsible for the training of personnel, expanded , as on the one hand the need for pilots increased and on the other hand an additional weapons operator for each combat helicopter crew , who also acted as 2nd pilot, had to be trained. At the end of the 1970s it became increasingly clear that to relieve the HG-34, which had to fulfill both training and transport tasks, the formation of a special unit was necessary. From 5 to 16 November 1981, therefore, the helicopter training squadron 35 was formed in Brandenburg-Briest and subordinated to the officers' college of the LSK / LV in Kamenz. The staff was taken over from the 3rd season and parts of the 2nd season of the HG-34 on December 1. The helicopter fleet, which initially comprised four chains with a total of 16 Mi-2 and four chains with six Mi-8T and seven Mi-8PS, was spun off from the HG-34 at the beginning of the training year 1981, which was thus released from the training tasks at the same time . Initially, the theoretical training took place at Section 7 "Aviation Training / Pilot" at the University of Bautzen and the practical training in Briest. This division over two locations proved to be not very efficient, so that the head of the LSK / LV decided in 1982 to merge both parts. This was implemented at the beginning of the 1983 training year through the establishment of the independent Section 8 “Aviation Training / Helicopter Guide” in Briest. The HAS-35 also had two KTW Mi-8 flight simulators especially for Mi-8 training .

In 1984 the squadron was expanded to size and renamed Helicopter Training Wing 35 . The founding roll call was set for September 1st. Two days before the appointment, however, two Mi-2s with tactical numbers 351 and 384 collided in the air on August 30 and crashed; both pilots were killed. Thereupon the list was changed to October 1st.

The training to become a helicopter pilot took about 180 flight hours in the HAG-35, with the basic training being carried out on the Mi-2 and covering two years with about 70 hours. From the 3rd year of study, the students completed most of the lessons on the Wed-8. While at the beginning only officer students were admitted for training, from 1987 ensign students were also trained as weapon operators for the Mi-24.

1986 the OHS "Otto Lilienthal" was founded in Bautzen on November 24th as the second officers' college of the air force / air defense, to which the HAG-35 was subordinated to the hunting and transport units of the NVA. After the political events of 1989, the helicopter training squadron 35 was disbanded on October 2, 1990; the last flight service had taken place on September 25th.

structure

Mi-2 of the HAG-35

• Rod
• I. Helicopter training squadron with Mi-2
• I. Technical relay with Wed-2
• II. Helicopter training squadron with Mi-8
• II. Technical squadron with Wed-8
• Control and repair relay
• Aviation Technical Battalion 35

Commanders

Rank	Surname	period of service
Lieutenant colonel	Helmut Laske	November 5, 1981 - January 13, 1984
Colonel	Peter number	January 14, 1984 - October 2, 1990

Helicopter inventory on October 2, 1990

number	Type
17th	Mil Wed-2
6th	Mil Mi-8T
11	Mil Mi-8PS

literature

• Wilfried Copenhagen : The Air Force of the NVA . Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02235-4 , p. 68 .
• Thomas Girke, Georg Bader: Wed-2 . In: DHS. The planes of the National People's Army . No. 2 . Merkur, Rinteln 1998, p. 5 and 43 .
• Thomas Girke, Georg Bader, Thomas Bußmann: Mil Mi-8T / TB . In: DHS. The planes of the National People's Army . No. 4 . Bmvd, 2001, ISSN  1435-831X , p. 33-35 .

Web links

• Chronicle of HAG-35

Remarks

1. ↑ The helicopter (serial number 56 3148 103) was delivered from the manufacturing plant in Świdnik in October 1973 and put into service with the HG-34 with tactical number 393 on November 20, 1973 . In November 1981 it was integrated into the HAG-35 as initial equipment and used there until it was dissolved. In January 1991 it was transferred to the Bundeswehr with the Kenner 94 + 63 and was flown from April of the same year by the Air Transport Group (LTGrp) Briest until December 1992. On June 22, 1994 it was handed over to the Museum Berlin-Gatow , where it can be viewed ever since.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Detlef Billig, Manfred Meyer: Airplanes of the GDR. III. Volume until 1990. TOM, Friedland 2003, ISBN 3-613-02285-0 , p. 181