RAF Bückeburg
Bückeburg Air Base.svg) Heeresflugplatz Bückeburg (Advanced Landing Ground B-150) |
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Federal Ministry of Defence | ||||||||||
| Operator | German Army | ||||||||||
| Location | Bückeburg | ||||||||||
| Built | 1946 | ||||||||||
| In use | 1946 - present | ||||||||||
| Commander | Brigadier General Richard Bolz | ||||||||||
| Occupants | German Army Aviators Corps | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 230 ft / 70 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°15′42″N 009°04′55″E / 52.26167°N 9.08194°ECoordinates: 52°15′42″N 009°04′55″E / 52.26167°N 9.08194°E | ||||||||||
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Bückeburg Air Base (German: Heeresflugplatz Bückeburg, ICAO: ETHB) is located northeast of the city of Bückeburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
The airfield was built in 1946 as a RAF Station, RAF Bückeburg, serving the headquarters of the Royal Air Force Germany in Bad Eilsen. It complemented the nearby headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine in Bad Oeynhausen. During the Berlin Airlift it was one of the numerous air fields from where supply flights to Berlin were carried out. After the building of the British Forces' Joint Headquarters (JHQ) at Rheindahlen in 1954, the RAF closed the airfield at the end of the 1950s.
With the foundation of the Bundeswehr in 1955, a decision was made that every branch of the Bundeswehr should have their own helicopter units, operating within the framework of the tasks designated to each branch of the armed forces. Thus, the German Army Aviation Corps was founded. The first training school, of this newly established branch of the German Army, the School of Army Aviation, was established in 1959 in Mendig but moved to its current location in Bückeburg in January 1960 and has been there ever since. Its first commanding office was Colonel Kuno Ebeling.
Bückeburg Air Base is used by the German Army's School of Army Aviation as one of the bases for the practical instruction of its flying and non-flying personnel. Basic flying training of helicopter pilots of other components of the German Armed Forces also takes place at Bückeburg Air Base.
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