Military airfield

Boeing B-52 and KC-135 , a military airfield Andersen Air Force Base of the US Air Force on Guam , Pacific Ocean

A military airfield is an airfield used by the military . In Germany and Austria, military airfields of the air forces are also known as air bases ; Military airfields of the German Army Aviation are also called Army Airfield .

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Bitburg Air Base , Bitburg , Germany, 1988

He has not only the usual for an airfield installations as runways , taxiways , parking areas, maintenance, navigation and communication equipment often bunker for parking the aircraft , which also called HAS ( hardened aircraft shelter - armored aircraft shelter ), respectively.

In addition to the airfield and barracks , it often also includes a flight school , repair workshops and logistical facilities for operation.

Definition

As a rule, the organizations managing the airfield do not use the term military airfield itself. It is more of a generic term in German-speaking countries. The German Luftwaffe , the German Navy and the air forces of the Austrian Armed Forces designate their seats as the air base and naval airbases. The German army calls them an airfield or simply an airfield , just like the Swiss Air Force in German-speaking Switzerland - in French-speaking Switzerland they are called Base aérienne . The US Air Force speaks of Air Base (AB) or the smaller Air Station in Germany or generally outside the USA , the US Army of the Army Airfield or also the smaller Army Air Station . This term is also used by the British Army stationed in northwest Germany .

There are also airfields that are used both militarily and civilly.

Military airfields in Germany

In the list of air bases in Germany , all active military airfields of the Bundeswehr and NATO allies in Germany are listed with their key technical data and the deployed units.

Former military airfields

Civil airports or places of paramount importance

Barth ( Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht) )

military flight operations ended in 1945, today a commercial airport

Braunschweig-Waggum (Air Force (Wehrmacht))

today Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport

Frankfurt Rhine-Main

The Air Base on the southern edge of the Frankfurt Airport served the USAF until the beginning of the 21st century as a gateway to Europe (dt. Gateway to Europe )

Friedrichshafen ( Armée de l'air , Armée de Terre )

Conversion into a commercial airport

Hahn (USAF)

Conversion into a commercial airport

Heringsdorf (formerly Swinemünde or Garz) (Lw, GSSD , NVA)

civil joint use since 1962, military use ended in 1990, today a commercial airport

Laarbruch ( RAF )

Conversion into a commercial airport

Lahr ( Armée de l'air , RCAF , Canadian Forces Air Command )

Airport for Europa-Park Rust

Memmingen (Air Force)

Conversion into a commercial airport

Söllingen ( Armée de l'air , RCAF , Canadian Forces Air Command )

Conversion into a commercial airport

Sylt (RAF, Navy )

Military co-use ended, today a commercial airport

Civil aerodromes of minor importance

The former air bases of the Wehrmacht, the National People's Army, the Bundeswehr and the Soviet armed forces are listed:

Achmer (Lw, RAF), military flight operations ended at the end of the 1940s, today a special airfield
Ahlhorn (Luftwaffe (Bundeswehr)), location of the Hansalinie metropolitan park as a logistics, technology and industrial park and approved as a special landing site.
Allstedt (Soviet armed forces), military flight operations ended in 1991, today a special airfield
Altenburg , conversion into a commercial airport, meanwhile Leipzig-Altenburg airfield
Babenhausen (Lw, USAF), military flight operations ended in 2006, today a commercial airfield
Bad Lippspringe (Paderborn) (Fliegertruppe, Lw), military flight operations ended after 1945, today a special landing site of the Rhine Army Parachute Association
Baden-Baden Oos ( airship force ), now a special landing site
Bamberg Army Airfield (Royal Bavarian Air Force, Air Force, US Army), military flight operations ended in 2012, today a special landing site
Bad Hersfeld (US Army), built in 1952/53, military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a special airfield
Bad Zwischenahn ; After the Second World War , the Canadians tore down two of the three runways and continued to use the facility. The Royal Air Force later tore down the last runway and built the RAF Hospital Rostrup (today BWK-Rostrup) there. On the privatized site, two of the three runways can still be seen through a protection .
Bitburg (USAF), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a commercial airfield
Bremgarten (Lw, Armée de l'air ), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a special airfield
Brockzetel (Lw), military flight operations at the port of operations ended at the end of 1945, today the glider airfield
Celle-Scheuen (Imperial Navy, Air Force), military flight operations ended in 1945, today a commercial airfield
Cottbus-Drewitz (NVA), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today airfield
Detmold (RAF), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a special airfield
Erding (Lw), military flight operations ended in September 2014, the Fliegerclub Erding can use the place with civil permission.
Falkenberg-Lönnewitz also Alt-Lönnewitz (Air Force, Red Army), military flight operations ended in 1993, today airfield
Finow / Eberswalde (Lw, Red Army), military flight operations ended in 1993, today airfield
Flensburg Today airfield
Giebelstadt (Lw, US Army), military flight operations ended in the mid-2000s, today a commercial airfield
Griesheim Air Base (Prussian Army, Lw, US Army) today a special landing site
Grossenhain (Sächs. Fliegertruppe, Lw, GSSD), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today airfield
Hildesheim (RAF), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a commercial airfield
Hopsten (Luftwaffe), conversion into an industrial park, partially renatured
Hoya (Lw), military flight operations at the port of operations ended at the end of 1945, today the glider airfield
Husum-Schwesing (Lw), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a commercial airfield
Itzehoe / Hungriger Wolf (Hohenaspe) (Army aviator), military flight operations ended in 2003, today a commercial airfield
Jüterbog Altes Lager (Fliegertruppe, Lw, GSSD), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a special airfield
Kaufbeuren (Allgäu) no military flight operations, technical training center of the Air Force , South Dept., Luftsportverein Kaufbeuren eV
Kiel (Lw, naval aviator) until 2012, then no more military flight operations
Köthen (Red Army), after the main runway was torn down, now a special landing site
Langeoog (Lw), military flight operations ended at the end of 1945, today's airfield is located about 1 km northeast of the former air base
Alt-Lönnewitz (Lw, GSSD), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a special airfield
Lübeck (Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht), RAF, Luftwaffe (Bundeswehr)); since 1955 civil use parallel to military use, the latter ended after 1990, today a commercial airport
Lüneburg (Lw, RAF), military flight operations ended at the end of the 1940s, today a special airfield
Mainz-Finthen (Lw, US Army), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a commercial airfield
Marx (Lw), military flight operations at the port of operations ended at the end of 1945, today glider airfield
Quantities (Lw, Armée de l'air ), military flight operations ended in the late 1970s, today a commercial airfield
Mendig (Lw, Heeresflieger), military flight operations ended in 2004, today a special airfield with industrial area and event location
Mühldorf (Lw), today a special landing site
Neubrandenburg (Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht), NVA, Air Force); Conversion into a commercial airport
Neuhardenberg / Marxwalde (Lw, NVA, Lw), military flight operations ended in 1993, today a special landing site
Neumünster (Lw), military flight operations ended in 1945, today airfield
Nordhorn-Klausheide (Lw), military flight operations at the port of operations ended at the end of 1945, today a commercial airfield
Peenemünde (Lw, NVA), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a special airfield
Rechlin (Lw, Red Army), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a commercial airfield
Rheine-Bentlage (Army, Lw), military flight operations ended in 2017, today used by Aeroclub-Rheine
Rotenburg (Wümme) (Lw, Army aviator), military flight operations ended in 1994, today airfield
Roth (Lw, Heeresflieger), military flight operations ended in 2014, used by: Flieger-Club Roth and branch of the Bavarian police helicopter squadron
Schleissheim (various mil. Users), military flight operations ended in the early 1980s, today a special landing site
Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental (Lw, US Army), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a commercial airfield
Soest (Lw, RAF), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a special airfield
Stade (Lw), military flight operations ended in 1945, today a special airfield
Stendal-Borstel (Lw, Red Army), military flight operations ended in 1992, today a commercial airfield
Strausberg (Lw, Red Army, NVA, Lw) military flight operations ended in 1992, then airfield
Tutow / Demmin (Lw, Red Army / NVA), military flight operations ended in 1993, today airfield
Uetersen (Air Force); until 1972 parallel with a sports and civil airfield,
Varrelbusch (Lw, RAF), military flight operations ended in the late 1940s, today a commercial airfield
Werneuchen (Lw, Red Army), military flight operations ended in the 1990s, today a special airfield
Zweibrücken ( RCAF , USAF); Conversion into a commercial airport, special landing site since 2018

Decommissioned German airfields

Surname	Users	from	to	current use	Remarks
Alt Daber	Luftwaffe GSSD	1940 May 3, 1945	May 3, 1945 1994	u. a. Race track and storage power plant
Alteno	Luftwaffe Air Force of the NVA	1938 May 1945	? 1990	Solar park
(Bad Aibling) -Mietrach	air force	1937	1945	u. a. a technology and a "feel-good park"	For years a listening station in the USA, the Bad Aibling Station
Basepohl	NVA	October 1975	September 1994		served as a helicopter airfield
Berlin-Gatow	Air Force RAF	November 2, 1935 June 25, 1945	Late April 1945 September 7th 1994	Air Force Barracks	The Bundeswehr Military History Museum uses the hangars
Berlin-Johannisthal	Red Army Air Force	1914 1945	1918 1946	among other things aerodynamic park of the university	military co-use in each case
Berlin-Tempelhof	USAF	4th July 1945	1994	as Tempelhofer Freiheit as a recreation area (park)	the original infrastructure apart from the taxiway lighting is still in place
Boenninghardt	Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht)	1939	1945	z. T. Housing development, agriculture and forestry
Borkum	Imperial Navy Kriegsmarine	August 1914 1938/39	November 1918 May 1945	u. a. still the base of a SAR helicopter of the German Navy	During the First World War naval flight station on the south beach, in the Second World War sea flight station at the New Harbor
Brandenburg-Briest	Luftwaffe NVA Luftwaffe	k. A. k. A. 1990	1945 1990 1993	u. a. a solar factory	was a special airfield until 2009
Braunschweig-Broitzem	Air Force Air Force	April 1917 1935	November 1918 April 1945	Use by companies, institutes and authorities	Used by the German Armed Forces during the Cold War
Bruggen	RAF	May 1, 1953	February 28, 2002	British Army barracks	Barracks were returned to Germany in 2015
Bug (Ruegen)	Imperial Navy Kriegsmarine	1914 1930s	1918 1945		until the Second World War, Seefliegerhorst, additional runways for land planes
Cottbus-North	Luftwaffe NVA Army Aviator	k. A. k. A. 1990	1945 1990 k. A.	Industrial area and an aviation museum
Dedelstorf	Air Force RAF	1936 1945	1945 late 1940s
Delmenhorst-Adelheide	air force	April 1936	April 1945	Barracks and training area for the Bundeswehr
Doberitz	Air Force Air Force Red Army	1910 1935 1945	1918 1945 1960
Dornberg	air force	1937	1945
Dortmund-Brackel	air force	1934	1945
Eschborn	Air Force US Army	1939 1945	April 1945 1992	Business park "Camp Phönix Park"
Frankfurt-Bonames ( "Maurice Rose" )	US Army	1952	1992	Nature and leisure area of the old airfield (Frankfurt green belt)
Fürstenfeldbruck	air force	1936	2003	Air Force Officer School	Civil aviation use has not been possible since the end of 2015, as there is no longer a permit for the aviation group of the Bundeswehr.
Fürstenwalde-Neuendorf	Luftwaffe GSSD from 1994 various civil and public users	July 1, 1937	August 31, 1994 (military use) July 28, 2010 (civil traffic)	80% built over with a solar park and shut down	Was a storage facility for nuclear warheads for a short time in 1969 and was completely closed in 2010 after the Russian armed forces withdrew in 1994
Gablingen b. Gersthofen	Kgl. Bavarian Air Force Air Force US Army	1916 1934 1955	1918 1945 1967	BND	Used by the US Army until 1998, after that the BND branch in Gablingen
Germersheim	Air Force US Army Air Force and Airship Force	k. A. k. A. 1945	k. A. 1945 1967
Goslar	air force	March 1937	April 1945	Use of the barracks by the Bundeswehr, residential buildings on the airfield
Goettingen	air force	1936	1945	Industrial and commercial space and a school
Goeppingen	air force	1935	1945
Grossenbrode	Navy	August 1938	May 1945		Seefliegerhorst in the Second World War, additional runways for land planes
Großostheim	air force	1937	1945	Ringheim district of Großostheim	Secret projects from 1943 to 1945, X-ray bundle flak and radiation transformer ( Betatron ), used after 1945 for motor and glider flight ( Ernst Jachtmann )
Großsachsenheim	air force	Summer 1942	March 1945	partly industrial area	military re-use by the US Army
Gutersloh	Air Force RAF British Army	1937 1945 1993	1945 1993 2013
Hage	Imperial Navy Air Force	1914 1938	April 1917 1943		was a port of operation, used by the Bundeswehr during the Cold War
Hailfingen	USAAF Air Force	1942 April 1945	April 1945 July 1945	agricultural use, the former runway is forested	Concentration camp memorial at the western end of the former runway
Hanau-Langendiebach	Air Force US Army	1939 1945	April 1945 2007	Lies fallow, further use of the area is unclear
Handorf	Air Force RAF	April 4, 1937 1945	April 3, 1945 in the late 1940s	Training area of the Bundeswehr
Halle-Nietleben	air force	1935	1945
Hanover-Vahrenwald	Air Force Air Force	1909 January 1939	November 1918 spring 1945	Use and a. by the Bundeswehr	used as an airship port during the imperial era
Heidelberg	US Army	1945	2014
Heidenau	air force	?	?		was a port of operation
Helmstedt-Mariental	air force	1940	April 1945
Hesepe	air force	1940?	1945	Bramsche reception center	was a port of operations, used by the German Armed Forces and the armed forces of the Netherlands during the Cold War
Heuberg (Oettingen)	air force	k. A.	1945		Construction began in 1935
Wooden churches	air force	k. A.	1945	u. a. a waste management company	during the Cold War transmitter of the Holzkirchen transmitter
Hops	Luftwaffe Air Force	October 25, 1939 April 1961	April 1945 2006
Husum-Schauendahl	Air Force RAF	1940 1945	1945 1945
Jever	Air Force RAF Air Force	1936 1951 1983	1945 1961 2013	Air Force property protection regiment
Jueterbog dam	Air Force Air Force	1915 1935	1918 1945		used by the Western Group (GSSD) during the Cold War
Kaltenkirchen	air force	Late 1942	May 1945		was a deployment port, later a training area for the Bundeswehr
Kamper lake	Navy	1930s	1945	is now in Poland	Seefliegerhorst in World War II
Coal bites	air force	1942	April 1945	Bundeswehr training area, golf course	was a port of operation
Lammershagen	air force	k. A.	1945		Seefliegerhorst
Landsberg / Lech	air force	1935	2017	The runway is used by a sport flying group	Former location of Air Transport Squadron 61
Langendiebach / Hanau	Air Force US Army	1939 August 1945	March 1945 2007
leak	Luftwaffe Air Force	k. A. 1945	1959 1993	Anti-aircraft missile base of the Bundeswehr	The runway is still used by the sport flying group
Leipheim	Air Force USAF Air Force	March 12, 1937 1945 1959	April 24, 1945 1959 1994	until 2008 still in use by the armed forces	Land was sold to local authorities in 2010
Lippstadt-Lipperbruch	air force	1936	1945		Barracks construction on the airfield: 1945–1956 British Army, 1958–2006 German Armed Forces, then residential and commercial area
List on Sylt	Navy	1920s / 30s	1945		Seefliegerhorst in World War II
Lottin	air force		1945		is now in Poland
Malmsheim airfield	Luftwaffe Bundeswehr	1937 1955	1945	Glider airfield / training area BW and US Army	Concrete track test site for Daimler / Bosch
Meiningen	Air Force NVA	1939 1965	1945 1990	industrial area	was a port of operations from 1965 helicopter squadron 16
Meppen	air force	1936	1945	Defense technical department 91 of the Bundeswehr
Metz (Frescaty)	Air force, airship force	1909	1919	until 2011 military airfield	is in France today
Mills (East Prussia)	air force		1945		is now in Poland, 7 km northeast of Grunwald
Munster-Handorf
Nellingen	Air Force US Army	1938 April 1945	August 1945 November 1992	Scharnhauser Park	1945 briefly Armée de l'air
nest	Navy	k. A.	1945		is now in Poland, in the Second World War, a sea air base
Neubiberg	Luftwaffe USAF German Army	1936 1945 1957	May 8, 1945 October 21, 1957 1971	University of the Federal Armed Forces	Conversion of the hangars into a sports hall and several warehouses; continued use of the barracks buildings as accommodation and staff; Conversion of the runway to a landscape park
Norderney	Navy	1935	1945		Seefliegerhorst in World War II
Obertraubling	air force	Autumn 1938	Spring 1945	Place Neutraubling
Oedheim	air force	1938	March 1945	Agriculture
Oldenburg	Air Force RAF Air Force	1936 1951 1957	May 8, 1945 October 21, 1957 2006	u. a. a solar park	military flight operations ended in 1993
Paderborn-Mönkeloh	air force	k. A.	1945	civil flight operations until the early 1970s	industrial area
Horse field	Air Force USAF Air Force	1939 1957 1961	1945 1958 1997	Opel test and event center
Plantlünne / Wesel	Air Force RAF	k. A. April 1945	April 1945 May 1945		was a port of operation
Pillau-Neutief	Navy	1939	1945		is now in Russia, in the Second World War, a sea air base
Potsdam		1914	1917	including a hotel	Production plant for airships
Dash	NVA Air Force	1954 1990	1990 1994	Use for events of all kinds
Pütnitz	Luftwaffe GSSD	1930s 1951	Early 1945 1994	u. a. Festival site and a technical association	was a sea flying school during the war
Quakenbrück	air force	1935	1945	mainly commercial operations, glider airfields
Clean	air force	August 1938	April 1945	Camp Reinsehlen	was a port of operation
Red vests	Air Force USAF
Sachsenheim	Air Force Armée de l'Air	k. A. April 1945	April 1945 autumn 1945?
Schongau	air force	1937	1945	Industrial park, substation
Schwaighofen (Neu-Ulm / Ulm)	Air Force US Army	1937 April 1945	1951 1983	industrial Estate	civil flight operations until 1997
Schwerin-Görries	Luftwaffe GSSD	1935 1945	1945 1993	industrial Estate
Seddin	Imperial Navy	July 1915	November 1918		is now in Poland, was an airship port
Schweinfurt	US Army Conn Barracks AAF	1945	2014	industrial Estate
Sembach	USAF	1953	1995	industrial Estate
Sperenberg	GSSD	1958	1994	Use of a runway for automobile tests
Tarp / Eggebek	Luftwaffe Air Force Navy	k. A. 1960 1964	1945 1964 2005	Eggebek industrial park and solar park
Templin	Red Army	1955	1994	Driving safety center eHighway	aviation use until 2012 as a special airfield
Toenning	Imperial Navy Kriegsmarine	August 1914 August 1936	November 1918 May 1945	industrial Estate	In the First World War, a sea air base, in the Second World War a sea air base
Ulm-Dornstadt	air force	1936	1945	industrial Estate
Varel-Friedrichsfeld	air force	193x	1945	Training area of the Bundeswehr	was a port of operation
Venlo-Herongen	air force	March 1941	March 1, 1945	partly glider airfield
Vörden	air force	1939?	1945	Training area for the British Army and German Armed Forces	was a port of operation, used by the armed forces of Great Britain, the USA and the Netherlands during the Cold War
Werl	air force	1936	1945	Conversion project KonWerl 2010	Usage by US and Belgian armed forces during the Cold War
Wesendorf	air force	circa 1937	1945	industrial Estate	until 2006 Bundeswehr location
Wildenrath	RAF	January 15, 1952	2nd November 1992	Railway test center, Siemens
Wildeshausen	Airship troops Imperial Navy	May 1916 September 1917	September 1917 November 1918	Residential and commercial area
Wilhelmshaven	Navy	1935	1945		Seefliegerhorst in World War II
Zellhausen (Mainhausen-)	air force	July 25, 1937	1945	Transmission systems in Mainflingen	Alias "sheep pasture"

The older of the civil airports still in operation today were also used for military purposes during the two world wars.

Airfields in the former German territory

The following airfields are located within the borders of Germany from 1914 and 1937 and were used by German air forces at that time.

Aslau (Air Force)