Kaufbeuren Air Base

Kaufbeuren Air Base

Fliegerhorst Kaufbeuren
Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) R-70
Kaufbeuren Air Base; ; Fliegerhorst Kaufbeuren; Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) R-70
	IATA: none; ICAO: ETSK;
Summary
Airport type	Military
Owner	Unified Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany
Operator	German Air Force
Location	Kaufbeuren, Germany
Coordinates	47°51′44″N 010°36′53″E / 47.86222°N 10.61472°E
Map
	Location of Kaufbeuren Air Base
Runways

Kaufbeuren Air Base (Fliegerhorst Kaufbeuren) is a

military airbase

. It is currently the home of the Luftwaffe Technical School 1.

History

Originally built in 1935 as a

P-51 Mustangs at the airfield from 22 July 1945 - 28 April 1946.^[2]^[3]

Renamed Kaufbeuren AFB (later, Kaufbeuren AB), the

Wiesbaden AB, Germany, and contributed to the U.S. total of nearly 1.8 million tons of supplies delivered on 189,963 flights.^[4]

On 20 January 1949, the wing's headquarters element moved to

RAF Fassberg, Germany, and fell under operational control of the 1st Airlift Task Force. When the Berlin Airlift ended on 26 September 1949, the 60 TCW began moving without its personnel and equipment to Wiesbaden, where it assumed the resources of the inactivated 7150th Air Force Composite Wing. The 60th became operational at Wiesbaden on 1 October 1949.^[5]

The shift of USAF bases to locations west of the Rhine River meant that permanent active flying organizations were not assigned to Kaufbeuren, and it was used as a communications station under the 7320th Air Force Wing. In 1955, the

7330th Flying Training Wing was established on the base to train German pilots for the reconstituted German Air Force. The facility was handed back to the West German government on 16 December 1957.^[6]^[7]

Missile Group 11 (German: Flugkörpergruppen 11, FKGrp 11) was activated in Kaufbeuren Air Base in February 1958, equipped with the MGM-1 Matador cruise missile.

Used as an active Luftwaffe airbase until the 1990s, it is now a non-flying training facility.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

External links

Luftwaffe Technical School 1 at Kaufbeuren (in German)

[1] "FA (Nazi Party) - TICOM Archive".

[2] 225th Searchlight Battalion History

[3] 55th Operations Group, USAFHRA Organizational Record Fact Sheet Archived 2011-05-07 at the Wayback Machine

[4] USAFHRA Document 00110699

[5] 60th AMW - Globalsecurity.org

[6] USAFHRA Document 00198176

[7] USAFHRA Document 00462798

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