Air Transport Squadron 62

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Lufttransportgeschwader 62
- LTG 62 -
III

COA LTG 62.svg

Internal association badge (coat of arms)
Lineup October 1, 1959
Country Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Logo Luftwaffe with lettering.svg air force
Strength approx. 1200 soldiers
Insinuation Air Force Command
Location Wunstorf Air Base
march Air march
Awards Flag of Lower Saxony.svg
Lower Saxony flag ribbon (1985), Germany flag ribbon (1997)
Flag of Germany.svg
guide
Commodore Colonel Christian John
Aircraft
Transport aircraft /
helicopter 		* Airbus A400M
Lufttransportgeschwader 62 (Lower Saxony)
Bremen Airport 4./LTG 62
Bremen Airport
4./LTG 62
Wunstorf Air Base 1., 2. and 3./LTG 62
Wunstorf
Air Base 1., 2. and 3./LTG 62
Locations of the LTG 62 in Lower Saxony and Bremen
Wunstorf Air Base in 2011 still with Transall C-160

The Lufttransportgeschwader 62 (LTG 62) is a squadron of the German Air Force that is stationed at the Wunstorf Air Base near Hanover . With the dissolution of the Luftwaffe operations units , the LTG 62 has been subordinate to the air force command in Cologne-Wahn since July 1, 2015 , with the European Air Transport Command (EATC) being responsible for operations.

assignment

  • Transport of material and personnel
  • Training of transport aircraft crews

History and present

The LTG 62, which was erected on October 1, 1959, was initially located at the Celle Army Airfield and was equipped with the Noratlas N 2501 . In the spring of 1960, supply flights for the victims of the earthquake of February 29, 1960 in Agadir (Morocco) were carried out from Celle . In the further course of the year the squadron was relocated to Cologne-Wahn Airport. His commodore at the time was Werner Guth .

Aviation memorial in Overath

From April 1963 the location was the Ahlhorn airfield . There the Luftwaffe took over the first Transall C-160 in April 1968 . LTG 62 was officially dissolved on September 30, 1971, but some of the staff was relocated to Wunstorf. The Ahlhorn Air Base was handed over to the Helicopter Transport Wing 64 (HTG 64).

On October 1, 1978, the pilot school "S" , which was already based at the Wunstorf Air Base, was renamed LTG 62 and restructured. The activities of the pilot school were integrated into the squadron and since then the aeronautical training of the youngsters has been one of the core tasks of the LTG 62. This also includes the 4th squadron, to which the future transport pilots are subordinate to troops, while they belong to the Lufthansa traffic pilot school in Bremen. In addition to the transport pilots, the flight students who will later fly the maritime patrol aircraft (today the P-3 Orion ) in the Navy are trained in it.

The HTG 64 was disbanded at the beginning of 1994 and its UH-1D helicopters were assigned to the air transport squadrons 61, 62 and 63 as 2nd squadrons. In this context, the remnants of the HTG 64 remaining in Ahlhorn were assigned to LTG 62 as an air transport group. In March of the same year, the LTG also took over the Holzdorf Air Base and subsequently maintained an SAR command there. The air transport group in Ahlhorn was also relocated to Holzdorf at the beginning of 1996.

On October 1st, 2010 the air transport group of LTG 62 in Holzdorf was dissolved and formed the personnel and material basis for the newly established helicopter squadron 64 .

On December 18, 2014, the first aircraft of the new Airbus A400M Atlas was delivered to the German Armed Forces; the transfer took place on December 19, 2014. The Wunstorf Air Base experienced the “fly-out” of the Transall on July 2, 2015.

Further copies of the A400M were continuously made available to the squadron; by November 2019 the number had grown to 31 machines.

At the beginning of 2019, the Federal Ministry of Defense announced the decision to build a smaller unit with the A400M in addition to the Wunstorf site. This is to be set up at Lechfeld Air Base as a multinational air transport group (LTGrp) and comprise 10 of the 50 A400M aircraft ordered. A staff of the LTG62 will start work in 2026 in order to accomplish the establishment of the air transport group (LTGrp) at the Lechfeld location by 2028.

structure

Coat of arms of the training inspection

The complex flying formation of the Luftwaffe consists of two groups and four flying squadrons:

  • Rod
  • Flying group
    • 1. Flying squadron, operational squadron for strategic air transport
    • 2nd flying squadron, operational squadron for tactical air transport and air refueling (since 2015).
    • 3. Flying squadron, operational squadron for special operations such as special operations or evacuations (since 2019).
    • 4. Flying Squadron, stationed at Bremen Airport , acting in cooperation with the Lufthansa Aviation Training the flying basic training of transport pilot in the armed forces.
    • Flight operations squadron
  • Technical group
    • two technical seasons
    • Replenishment / transport relay
    • Training workshop
  • Training inspection

Commodore

1959-1971

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
1 Colonel Rolf Alander 1959 1961
2 Colonel Werner Guth 1961 1970
3 Colonel Heinz-Ulrich Beuther 1970 1971

Since 1981

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
1 Colonel Walter Holinka 1981 1987
2 Colonel Hans-Werner Ahrens 1994 1995
3 Colonel Horst Abromeit 1995 1998
4th Colonel Joachim Wundrak 1998 2000
5 Colonel Erich Siegmann 2000 2003
6th Lieutenant Colonel Jörg Lebert 2003 2006
7th Colonel Karl Trautvetter 2006 2008
8th Colonel Bernhard Altersberger 2008 2011
9 Colonel Guido Henrich 2011 2014
10 Colonel Ludger Bette November 24, 2014 March 23, 2020
11 Colonel Christian John since March 24, 2020

Used aircraft

  • Aircraft of the LTG 62

  • A400M of LTG 62 (for ILA 2016)

  • Transall 1984 on the A29 motorway

  • Transall C160 D

  • UH-1D 1997

  • Approach to landing on a short distance

education

An Air Force training workshop is also located at Wunstorf Air Base. The Bundeswehr trains aircraft mechanics specializing in maintenance technology and electronics technicians for systems and devices here.

Coat of arms of LTG 62

The squadron coat of arms of the LTG 62 adorns Hans Huckebein , a raven from a picture story by Wilhelm Busch . The current LTG 62 adopted this coat of arms from the “S” pilot school, which was dissolved in 1978 ; the coat of arms of the old LTG 62 was adorned with a white elephant on a black background.

Incidents

  • On January 23, 1961, a Noratlas 2501D with the registration GB + 119 was flown on a training flight between Overath and Vilkerath , 15 kilometers northeast of the starting airport Cologne / Bonn , in power lines and masts (CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain ). The machine belonged to LTG 62. It is presumed that the pilots lost their orientation when visibility was poor and believed they were closer to the airport. All four crew members were killed. A memorial at the crash site commemorates the accident.
  • On November 24, 1964, a Noratlas 2501D with registration GB + 104 (serial number: D055) crashed on the approach from Bourges (France) to Ahlhorn . All four crew members of the LTG 62 were killed.
  • On May 11, 1990, there was a fatal accident with a Transall of LTG 62. During a flight from its home base in Wunstorf , the 50 + 39 crashed into a slope in the Spessart on the way to Landsberg near Lohr am Main . In this accident, none of the ten people on board survived the crash. Details of the causes of the crash were not disclosed.
  • On February 6, 1993, a Transall belonging to Lufttransportgeschwader 62 was shot at while approaching Sarajevo and Sergeant Major Wiegel was seriously wounded.

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Lufttransportgeschwader 62  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Change of leadership at LTG 62 takes place. Wunstorfer Aue Post, March 25, 2020
  2. ↑ An important day for Holzdorf Air Base. Lausitzer Rundschau, September 24, 2010
  3. ↑ From LTG to HSG. Air Force homepage, December 11, 2009, archived from the original on February 9, 2010 ; Retrieved February 14, 2010 .
  4. ^ The list of the helicopter squadron 64th Homepage of the Air Force, September 30, 2010, archived from the original on October 2, 2010 ; Retrieved October 1, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Joy in Lechfeld In: Federal Ministry of Defense , January 2, 2019.
  6. ↑ Lechfeld - hub for military air transport In: Luftwaffe News, November 21, 2019.
  7. ↑ Lechfeld Air Base becomes the second German A400M base In: n-tv , November 21, 2019.
  8. ↑ Martin Buschhorn: Change of leadership in the 2nd flying squadron of Air Transport Wing 62 . In: Luftwaffe News . January 8, 2019.
  9. ↑ Martin Buschhorn: A400M squadron for special operations . In: Luftwaffe News . January 8, 2019.
  10. ^ Accident report Noratlas GB + 119 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 6, 2019.
  11. ↑ Stefan Kunze: Memorial: Remembering a tragic crash . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . ( ksta.de [accessed October 17, 2017]).
  12. ^ Accident report Noratlas GB + 104 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 6, 2019.
  13. ↑ Johannes Ungemach: Transall crash 20 years ago: "It was terrible". Mainpost, May 10, 2010, accessed February 27, 2012 .
  14. ↑ LTG 62 named the best air force association , on hardthoehenkurier.de on February 19, 2020 , accessed on June 4, 2020