Værløse military airfield

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Flyvestation Værløse
Flyvestation Vaerloese 2002.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code EKVL
Coordinates

55 ° 46 '2 "  N , 12 ° 20' 36"  E Coordinates: 55 ° 46 '2 "  N , 12 ° 20' 36"  E
Height above MSL 18 m (59  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 15 km northwest of Copenhagen
Street 12 km to Primærrute 16
Basic data
opening 1934
operator Flyvevåbnet
Start-and runway
10/28 2457 m × 46 m asphalt / concrete

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The Flyvestation Værløse was a military airfield of the Danish Air Force until April 1, 2004 . The base is in the Danish capital region two kilometers southwest of the municipality Værløse , since 2007 in Furesø Kommune . The airfield is currently deactivated.

history

South of the village was the flyvestation of the same name of the Royal Danish Air Force until 2007, which was used in particular as a transport aircraft base until April 1, 2004, when flight operations were suspended.

The airfield was built in the mid-1930s. At the beginning of the Second World War, all four squadrons of the Danish Army Air Forces were based here ; Denmark has only had an independent air force since the early 1950s.

Right at the beginning of the invasion of Denmark by the German Wehrmacht during the company Weserübung these were by a 45-minute air attack by Bf 110 of Luftwaffe completely destroyed on the morning of 9 April 1940 almost. As the war continued, the Air Force used the airfield as a military airfield and expanded it for this purpose. Various associations were located here, such as the Air Force shooting school. During the last eleven months of the war, the 5th Squadron of Mine Search Group 1 (5./MSGr.1), equipped with Ju 52MS , was stationed here, to which the Ju 88G of part of the IVth Group of Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 (IV ./NJG 2). In the last months of the war the base was the target of evacuation flights from East Prussia and the Baltic States .

After the founding of Flyvevåbnet , Værløse became home to various upper command authorities and training facilities for the air force as well as the 722nd Eskadrille , a light transport unit. The extension of the runway for the operation of jet-powered aircraft was completed in 1953 and in 1956 the 721st Eskadrille was relocated to Værløse as a further squadron , which over the years operated with various types of aircraft such as Catalina , C-47A , C-54D / G or C-130H , the latter from 1975 onwards. Meanwhile, the task of the 722nd Squadron was from 1957 the SAR service, it flew the S-55 until 1962 and then the Alouette III and additionally from 1965 the S-61A Sea King .

In the first half of the 1970s the station was expanded again and from 1977 it was also home to the naval aviation service , which had emerged from the Alouette III of the 722nd Squadron and was equipped with Lynx from 1980 .

After the decision to close the station, the transporters moved to Aalborg and the helicopters to Karup in the spring of 2004 . The airfield is currently closed, with the area being managed as a nature and leisure area, with the exception of the former northern edge area that has been ceded.

Hangars 6 and 7 are used as film studios by FilmStations . Part of Denmark's most-watched feature film in 2012, the resistance fighter film Hvidsten Gruppen , was shot here, but was completed in the Risby-studierne film studio in Albertslund by the film director Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis .

Trivia

The Danish cyclist Rasmus Quaade presented on September 3, 2015 to the currently disused airfield on a cargo bike manufacturer's Larry vs Harry an unofficial world record for load wheels in the time trial over 2000 m. For this purpose, his bike was loaded with a 28 kg load and thus came to a total weight of 50 kg. He needed a time of 2:50 minutes for the route.

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