Lechfeld Airbase

Germany / Bayern / Klosterlechfeld /
 military airbase, Bundeswehr (Germany)
Lechfeld Air Base (IATA: RBM, ICAO: ETSL) is a German Air Force (Luftwaffe) base located 1 km east of Lagerlechfeld in Bavaria, about 20 km south of Augsburg on the Bundestrasse 17.

It is the home of Training Division A of the School of Management Assistance, and of 32 Fighter Bomber Wing (Jagdbombergeschwader 32), part of the Luftwaffe's 1st Air Division. The two squadrons based there fly the Panavia Tornado.

In October 2011 the German Federal Ministry of Defence announced a reorganisation/reduction of the German Armed Forces. As a consequence, 32 Fighter Bomber Wing will be disbanded and 14 Student Company of the German Armed Foces Command Support School, also stationed at the air base, will be reduced to one of the elements of the German Armed Foces Command Support School. The base will house a branch of the German Air Force Engineering Training Centre and other minor units of the air force. The reorganisation will reduce the number of personnel stationed on the air base from currently 1620 to 570.[3] The disbandment of 32 Fighter Bomber Wing is planned for March 2012.[4]
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lechfeld_Airbase
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Coordinates:   48°11'12"N   10°51'35"E

Comments

  • I was at Lechfeld Airbase Sept 1976 for a Nato exercise. About 200 of us came from Myrtle Beach AFB.
  • actually airbase used for trainingpurposes of 74th AirtacticalCommand using Typhoon Eurofighter
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