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Bitburg Air Base, West Germany. 586th Tactical Missile Group, 18 June 1958 – 25 September 1962; Hahn Air Base, West Germany. 587th Tactical Missile Group, 18 June 1958 – 25 September 1962 [1] Sembach Air Base, West Germany Squadrons. 38th Tactical Missile Maintenance Squadron: 1 April 1985 – 22 August 1990
Bitburg Airport (German: Flugplatz Bitburg) (IATA: BBJ, ICAO: EDRB) is a commercial airport serving Bitburg, a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Bitburg, 32 km (20 mi) north of Trier , and 217 km (135 mi) west of Wiesbaden .
The 7407th squadron had a Detachment 1 organized at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany using three North American RF-100A Super Sabre reconnaissance aircraft (53-1551, 53–1554, 53–1554) called as "Slick Chicks". In May 1955, after successful competition of flight tests, the aircraft were sent to the 7407th Support Squadron.
Bitburg Air Base Bitburg: closed 1994 Butzbach Kaserne Butzbach: closed 2008 Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne Darmstadt: closed 2008 Campbell Barracks: Heidelberg: closed 2013 this was USAREUR (US ARmy EURope) HQ Camp Grohn: Bremen: returned to German government now the campus of Jacobs University Camp King: Oberursel: closed 1995
The F-105D entered service with the 335th TFS in September 1960, although it was not fully operational on the F-105D until early 1961. [27] The first overseas F-105 units formed in West Germany in 1961, with the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing at Bitburg Air Base in May and the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base in October.
An Italian F-104S at Bitburg Air Base, 1988. In the Italian Air Force, the F-104 was a mainstay from the early 1960s until the end of the 20th century. The first flight for an Italian F-104G was a Lockheed-built aircraft, MM6501 , on 9 June 1962; however, the first Fiat/Aeritalia-built example flew two years later on 5 October 1962.
A flight of four Lockheed F-104G Starfighters of the Aeronautica Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force) crash in formation into a field near the village of Ralingen near the border with Luxembourg, ~12 miles S of Bitburg, West Germany, shortly after take-off from Bitburg Air Base, killing all four pilots. The four jets flown by an Italian Air ...
23d Fighter-Bomber Squadron F-84E [note 3] 23d Fighter Day Squadron F-86 Sabre [note 4] KB-50J of the 420th Air Refueling Squadron refueling 2 Republic F-105D's from the 23d Tactical Fighter Squadron, about 1960. In November 1952, the squadron moved to Bitburg Air Base, Germany, as part of the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing.