Faßberg Air Base: Difference between revisions

| name = Faßberg Air Base<br>{{smaller|''Heeresflugplatz Faßberg''}}<BR>{{small|(Advanced Landing Ground B-152)}}<BR>[[File:Bundeswehr Logo Heer with lettering.svg|75px]][[File:Bundeswehr Logo Luftwaffe with lettering.svg|160px]]

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| type = Air Base

| r1-surface = [[Asphalt concrete|Asphalt]]

'''Faßberg Air Base''' ({{lang-de|Heeresflugplatz Faßberg}}) {{airport codes||ETHS}} is a [[Bundeswehr]] base located {{convert|2|km}} northeast of the [[Municipalities of Germany|municipality]] of [[Faßberg]], [[Lower Saxony]], [[Germany]]. The air base is jointly used by the [[German Army]] (''Heer'') and the [[German Air Force]] (''[[Luftwaffe]]''). Its main user is the [[German Army Aviation Corps]].

An airfield was established in 1934. However, since Germany was not allowed to possess an air force (''Luftwaffe'') under the rules of the [[Treaty of Versailles]], the airfield was supposed to serve a future air force.

Between 1934 and 1945 various [[Luftwaffe]] units were based on the air base, flying aircraft as diverse as [[Junkers Ju 52]], [[Junkers Ju 88]], [[Heinkel He 111]], and towards the final stages of [[World War II]] [[Messerschmitt Me 163]] and [[Messerschmitt Me 262]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Grube | first = Michael | title = Fliegerhorst Fassberg | language = Germande |date = 23 May 2001 | url = http://www.geschichtsspuren.de/artikel/41/61-fliegerhorst-fassberg.html | accessdateaccess-date = 6 November 2011}}</ref>

In April 1945 the airfield was overrun by the [[British Army]] and subsequently used by the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF). It was renamed first Airfield B 152 and later RAF Fassberg. During the [[Berlin Blockade]] RAF Fassberg played an important role as a hub for supplying the city.<ref>{{Citation | last = | first = | title = RAF Fassberg |work = BAOR Locations | date = | url = http://baor-locations.org/RAFFassberg.aspx.html | accessdateaccess-date = 6 November 2011}}</ref>

Whilst being operated by the British Armed Forces several RAF squadrons were based at Fassberg. The first of these was [[No. 26 Squadron RAF|26 Squadron]] who arrived on 13 April 1946 and stayed for varying periods during the next 16 months. The squadron initially used the [[Hawker Tempest]] F.5 until June 1946 when it switched to the Tempest F.2. The Squadronsquadron stayed until 11 August 1947 then moved to [[RAF Gutersloh]].{{sfn|Jefford|1988|p=33}}

The next squadron was [[No. 14 Squadron RAF|14 Squadron]] whowhich arrived on 1 November 1950 with the [[de Havilland Mosquito]] B.35, however only two months later during February 1951 they changed to the [[de Havilland Vampire]] FB.5 and further between May 1953 and July 1954 the Venom FB.1 was introduced with the squadron utilising both Vampires and Venom. On 23 June 1955 the squadron moved to [[RAF Oldenburg]].{{sfn|Jefford|1988|p=28}}

* No. 22 (LAA) Squadron [[RAF Regiment]] also at the handing over of the station to the Luftwaffe.{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}

Faßberg Air Base is home to the army's Transport Helicopter Regiment 10 (''Transporthubschrauberregiment 10'') which was established in 1971. The regiment was first based at [[Celle Air Base]] but was moved to Faßberg in 1981.<ref>{{Citation | last = | first = | title = Geschichte | language = Germande | work = Transporthubschrauberregiment 10 "LÜNEBURGER HEIDE" | publisher = Bundesministerium der Verteigung | date = 23 May 2001 | url = http://www.deutschesheer.de/portal/a/dlo/!ut/p/c4/DcJBEkAwDAXQs7hAwtbOLbAxVX_ajEx02uD6zHu88s_CIym4XBaUZ16ijPtLGajboRcdAmveHKow2qukgbzepcAcoqCafOgpocUsMTu4nFP3AcvRnvY!/ | accessdatearchive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111003042708/http://www.deutschesheer.de/portal/a/dlo/!ut/p/c4/DcJBEkAwDAXQs7hAwtbOLbAxVX_ajEx02uD6zHu88s_CIym4XBaUZ16ijPtLGajboRcdAmveHKow2qukgbzepcAcoqCafOgpocUsMTu4nFP3AcvRnvY!/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 3, 2011 | access-date = 6 November 2011}}</ref> Transport Helicopter Regiment 10 is equipped with helicopters of the type [[Bell UH-1 Iroquois|Bell UH-1D]]. Other units stationed at the air base are the airforce's training school, a technical-logistical training centre for [[rotorcraft|rotary wing]] aircraft run by both the air force and the army, part of the Franco-German training facilities for the [[Eurocopter Tiger]], a medical services centre, a family support unit and part of the administration of [[Bergen-Hohne Training Area]].

*{{cite book |last1=Jefford |first1= C G |title= RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912 |year=1988 |publisher= Airlife |location= [[Shrewsbury]] |isbn= 1-85310-053-6 |ref= {{harvid|Jefford|1988}} }}

* {{citation | last = Dressel | first = Joachim | last2 = Griel | first2 = Manfred | title = Flugzeuge und Hubschrauber der Bundeswehr | place = Stuttgart | publisher = Motorbuch-Verlag| year = 1990 | edition = |isbn = 3-613-01358-4 |language=de}}

* {{citation | last = Garben| first = Fritz| title = Fünf Jahrzehnte Heeresflieger: Typen, Taktik und Geschichte| place = Lemwerder| publisher = Stedinger-Verlag| year = 2006| edition = |isbn = 3-927697-45-1 |language=de}}

* {{citation | last = Huschke | first = Wolfgang J.| last2 = | first2 = | title = The Candy Bombers: the Berlin Airlift 1948/49. A History of the People and Planes| place = Berlin | publisher = Metropol| year = 1999| edition = |isbn = 3-932482-19-0}}

* {{citation | last = Luttermann| first = Klaus| last2 = | first2 = | title = Die große Waldbrandkatastrophe | place = Hanau am Main | publisher = EFB-Verlagsgesellschaft| year = 1984 | edition = |isbn = 978-3-9800353-6-1 |language=de}}

* {{citation | last = Ries | first = Karl | last2 = Dierich | first2 = Wolfgang| title = Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe. Planskizzen 1935 - 1945 | place = Stuttgart | publisher = Motorbuch-Verlag| year = 1993| edition = |isbn = 978-3-613-01486-2|language=de}}

* {{citation | last = Vetter | first = Bernd | last2 = Vetter | first2 = Frank| title = Die deutschen Heeresflieger: Geschichte, Typen und Verbände | place = Stuttgart | publisher = Motorbuch-Verlag| year = 2001 | edition = |isbn = 3-613-02146-3 |language=de}}

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