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On 6 March 1970, D-INAH, a Handley Page Jetstream owned by Bavaria Fluggesellschaft departed Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany, for Samedan Airport, Switzerland.The aircraft crashed into snow about 3 km (1.9 mi) and 0.5 km (0.31 mi) left of Samedan Airport's runway centreline.
The Air Base was established in 1935, and was the Luftkriegsschule 4 (LKS 4—4th Air War School) of the Luftwaffe during World War II.Field Marshal Hermann Göring is said to have taken a deep personal interest in establishing an air force training base for the Luftwaffe and modeled Fürstenfeldbruck after the United States Army Air Forces training center at Randolph Field, Texas.
Bavaria's police helicopter squad is also based at the Munich Airport, where five of the Eurocopter EC135 helicopters are stationed. A move of the unit to Schleißheim Airport is planned for 2020. In addition, one of the world's two chambers for explosive goods (the second one is located at Kuala Lumpur International Airport ) is located on the ...
The Massing Open-Air Museum was founded in 1969 and was one of the first museums of its type in Bavaria. Initially only the most attractive buildings from the rural Rot valley were displayed, which included wooden houses, painted cupboards and chests, Kröning pottery, embroidery, and turned ware. Since then, more everyday objects have been ...
The military training area was established in 1907 by clearing at least 58 smaller villages, [3] and used to train troops for the III Royal Bavarian Corps. [1] [4] Undergoing a major expansion from 96 to 230 square kilometres (37 to 89 square miles) in 1938 and forcibly evicting more than 3,500 people from their villages, [3] the base was used by the Wehrmacht to practice blitzkrieg tactics.
[1] [2] This led to the foundation by Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities on 28 March 1759. [3] Count Sigmund von Haimhausen was the first president. The Academy's foundation charter specifically mentions the Parnassus Boicus, an earlier learned society. [1]
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in München (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts) is an association of renowned personalities in Munich, Bavaria. It was founded by the Free State of Bavaria in 1948, continuing a tradition established in 1808 by the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich.
Hof–Plauen Airport (German: Flughafen Hof–Plauen) (IATA: HOQ, ICAO: EDQM) is a regional airport serving Hof, a city in the German state of Bavaria. The airport is located 3.2 nautical miles (6 km) southwest of Hof. [2]