Fighter Squadron 2
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Jagdfliegergeschwader 2 |
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.svg) GDR national badge LSK aircraft |
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| active | December 1953 to 1989 |
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.svg){kind=small} GDR
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| Armed forces | NVA |
| Armed forces | Air Force |
| Branch of service | Aviation forces |
| Type | Type of fighter pilot forces |
| Strength | approx. 600 soldiers and 100 civilian employees |
| Insinuation | 3. LVD |
| Squadron location | Neubrandenburg Airport |
| Web presence | JG-2 |
| insignia | |
| squadron | III |
| Aircraft | |
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Fighter aircraft / helicopter |
see list of aircraft types |
The Jagdfliegergeschwader 2 (JG-2) bore the honorary name of Juri Gagarin and was a flying unit in regimental strength of the NVA air force directly subordinate to the 3rd Air Defense Division .
 
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JG-2 Trollenhagen |
history
The forerunner of the JG-2 was the 2nd division of the 1st Aero Club of the Barracked People's Police established in December 1953 at the Cottbus-Nord airfield . On December 1, 1954, it was renamed the 2nd command of the 1st Aero Club of the Barracked People's Police. On July 1, 1956, the name was changed to Fliegergeschwader 2 of the 1st Air Division . At the same time, it was relocated to Rothenburg Airport . When it was taken over by the NVA on March 1, 1957, it was run as the 2nd Air Wing of the 1st Air Division. From October 1961 the squadron was relocated to the Trollenhagen airfield in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, today 's Neubrandenburg airport , where it was renamed Jagdfliegergeschwader 2 (JFG 2; later JG-2) on November 1, 1961. This was accompanied by a change in the structure of the air force. The JG-2 was now operationally subordinated to the 3rd Air Defense Division with staff in Neubrandenburg .
On February 26, 1971, the squadron was given the traditional name "Yuri Gagarin".
On the decision of the GDR government to dissolve a fighter squadron in 1989 as a contribution to disarmament, the JG-2 received younger and better equipped MiG-21MF from the JG-7 to be dissolved in exchange for older MiG-21SPS / K. The last flight service took place on September 26, 1990.
Commanders JG-2
| Rank, name | period of service | comment |
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| Lieutenant Siegfried Heinig | 1953-1955 | |
| Lieutenant Colonel Hans-Joachim Triebel | 1955-1956 | later ZGS-14, Ltr. AIZ |
| Captain Kurt Rappmann | 1956-1958 | later Kdr. 1. LVD |
| Major Ewald Kuhn | 1957-1960 | |
| Major Heinz Lätzer | 1961 | |
| Lieutenant Colonel Ewald Kuhn | 1957-1960 | |
| Major Johannes Koehler | 1964-1966 | |
| Captain Peter Irmscher | 1966-1969 | |
| Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang Büttner | 1969-1972 | later major general u. Kdr. Management body front u. Military Transport Air Force (NVA) |
| Colonel K.-M. Spitzberg | 1972-1975 | 1974 Honored military pilot of the GDR |
| Lieutenant Colonel Horst Priese | 1975-1981 | 1979 Honored military pilot of the GDR |
| Lieutenant Colonel Gunter Harzbecher | 1981-1988 | 1984 Honored military pilot of the GDR |
| Lieutenant Colonel Robert Finke | 1988-1990 |
Annotation:
- For frame structure see: Squadron, Air Force NVA
Used aircraft types
The following types of combat aircraft were used in JG-2.
- Jak-11
- MiG-15bis
- MiG-15UTI
- MiG-17F
- MiG-17PF
- MiG-21PFM
- MiG-21U
- IL-28
- MiG-21SPS / K
- MiG-21M
- MiG-21US
- MiG-21MF
- MiG-21UM
See also
literature
- Gunter Harzbecher, Hans Joachim Hardt, Karl-Erich Hauschildt: 30 years of take-off and landing: The Fighter Wing -2 "Juri Gagarin" at the Neubrandenburg / Trollenhagen airfield from 1960 to 1990 . MediaScript, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-9814822-2-0 .
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 7.8 " N , 13 ° 18 ′ 21.6" E