Transport squadron 24

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Transport Fliegerstaffel 24
- TS-24 -
II

GDR Air Force plane marking
active October 1971 to November 1992
Country Flag of NVA (East Germany) .svg GDR
Armed forces NVA
Armed forces NVA Air Force
Branch of service Aviation forces
Type Transport aviators
Insinuation FO FMTFK , LTG 65
Relay location Dresden-Klotzsche airfield
Last commander
Squadron commander Lieutenant Colonel Wolf
insignia
Homepage TS-24
Aircraft
Transport aircraft /
helicopter 		see table
Entrance to the site of the then industrial park Klotzsche , location of the barracks in Dresden

The Transportfliegerstaffel 24 (TS-24) was a flying unit in battalion strength of the NVA air forces in direct subordinate to the command organ front u. Military transport air forces .

history

Lineup

The squadron was set up in accordance with Order 14/63 of the Minister for National Defense on May 2, 1963 at Dessau airfield as Transportfliegerstaffel 27 (TFS-27), with parts of Transportfliegergeschwader 17 (TG-17) being taken over. At the same time, the Aviation Technical Battalion 27 (FTB-27), which was directly subordinate to the squadron, was set up for supply and support.

Relocation and name change

In October 1963 both formations were relocated to the Dresden-Klotzsche airfield . With the restructuring on December 1, 1971, the name was changed to TFS-24 and FTB-24. The final designation TS-24 was used from 1975.

structure

The TS-24 consisted of up to four transport flight chains and two aerial photo chains.

Specialty

The training to become a helmsman / navigation officer of the officers' college for military pilots in the fourth and final year of study took place in the TS-24 using an An-26 transport aircraft.

Takeover in the Bundeswehr and dissolution

On 3 October 1990, the TS-24 was in the air transport squadron 65 of the Air Transport Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces adopted. In November 1992 the TS-24 was finally disbanded as the Dresden-Klotzsche air transport group of the air transport squadron 65 formed in 1991 .

Commanders

Rank, name period of service comment
Major Ross 1963-1965
Major room 1965-1970
Lieutenant Colonel Tetzel, Joachim 1970-1973 1981 Honored military pilot of the GDR
Lieutenant Colonel Kolditz 1973-1974
Lieutenant Colonel Tetzel, Joachim 1974-1976
Lieutenant Colonel Berthold, Roland 1976-1981 1980 Honored military pilot of the GDR
Lieutenant Colonel Schikor 1982-1983
Lieutenant Colonel Schammer 1983-1986
Major Groeschel 1986-1990 1990–1991 provisional Kdr./ Consultant Maj. Trapp LTG 63
Lieutenant Colonel Wolf 1991-1992

Note:
The position of the squadron commander was comparable to that of battalion commander in the army .

Aircraft types

The An-26 371 was in service with the TS-24 from December 11, 1980 to October 3, 1990.
  • 2 × Mi-2F
  • 4 × An-2
  • 16 × Il-14 P End of use 1976–1982
  • 12 × An-26 from 1980, when taken over by the Bundeswehr (1990) new license plates 52 + 01 to 52 + 12 (transfer of license plates from the Noratlas, which was retired in 1980 )

See also

literature

  • Franz Spur: Military transport aircraft Dessau – Dresden. A contribution to the 35-year history of the GDR transport aviation . AeroLit, Diepholz 2002, ISBN 3-935525-08-7 .
  • Lutz Kobert, Ulrich Jeschke: NVA transport air forces . Special and foreign missions of the TS-24 . In: Fliegerrevue extra . No. 2 . Möller, Berlin 2003.

Web links

Commons : An-24 in the service of the TS-24  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noratlas on the Air Force website , cf. luroko.de luroko.de , accessed on January 5, 2014