Erding Air Base
Erding Air Base.svg) Fliegerhorst Erding |
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Bundeswehr | ||||||||||
| Operator | German Air Force | ||||||||||
| Location | Erding, Germany | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,515 ft / 462 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°19′21″N 011°56′55″E / 48.32250°N 11.94861°ECoordinates: 48°19′21″N 011°56′55″E / 48.32250°N 11.94861°E | ||||||||||
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Erding Air Base (German: Fliegerhorst Erding, ICAO: ETSE) is a German Air Force airfield near the town of Erding, about 45 kilometers (28 mi) northeast of central Munich in Bavaria. It is the home of the 5th Air Defense Missile Squadron and the 1st Air Force Maintenance Regiment.
The last public airshow at Erding was held during the summer of 1986.
Prior to and during World War II, Erding was a Luftwaffe pilot training airfield. It was seized by the United States Army in April 1945 and used by the United States Air Force during the early years of the Cold War. Erding was used as an Air Depot, Air Base and an Air Station.
USAF units stationed at Erding were:
Originally developed as an Air Depot in the early postwar years, the mission of Erding Air Base (later Station) was to provide depot-level maintenance of USAFE and NATO fighters. With the opening of Châteauroux-Déols Air Base, France in 1953, Erding became a satellite depot.
The mission of Erding Air Base was changed in 1956 to training personnel for the newly reconstituted German Air Force. The base was turned over to the German Air Force on 1 April 1957. On 14 December 1957, control of Erding Air Base was returned to the reconstituted German Air Force as a front line facility where it hosted various F-104, Tornado and other fighter squadrons.
With the creation of NATO in response to Cold War tensions in Europe, USAFE wanted its major air bases in West Germany moved west of the Rhine River to provide greater air defense warning time. The establishment of the new bases in the Rhineland-Palatinate diminished the USAF use of Erding. It became an air defense facility in 1956 with the assignment of the F-86D equipped 440th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, a detachment of the 86th Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Landstuhl Air Base until the arrival of the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger in Europe and budget cutbacks in 1960 forced its closure.
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