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The museum acts as an independent military department. The museum is in Berlin at a former Luftwaffe and Royal Air Force (RAF) airfield, RAF Gatow. The focus is on military history, particularly the history of the post-war German Air Force. The museum has a collection of more than 200,000 items, including 155 aeroplanes, 5,000 uniforms and ...
Part of the former airfield is now called General Steinhoff-Kaserne, and is home to the Luftwaffenmuseum der Bundeswehr, the German Air Force Museum. Also on the site of the former Royal Air Force station, but not part of General Steinhoff-Kaserne , is a school, the Hans-Carossa-Gymnasium , as well as houses for government employees of the ...
Leipzig–Altenburg (as the airfield is now known) is today mainly used by general aviation and corporate aircraft. There is also a small aviation museum which chronicles the history of the airfield. Two aircraft are currently on display there: an ex-Soviet Air Force MiG-21, and an ex-Luftwaffe Breguet 'Atlantique' maritime patrol aircraft.
A museum-preserved Bf 110G night fighter with its accurate light base-color nocturnal camouflage, also bearing "wave-mirror" irregular gray lines. In the Luftwaffe, there were centralized regulations on field camouflage patterns. In practice, these were either amended or ignored.
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.
Lechfeld Air Base (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 was 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 airfield was also home of German Air Force Museum Uetersen from 1956 until 1995, when Luftwaffenmuseum der Bundeswehr was relocated to Berlin-Gatow. In the 1970s, a Goodyear Blimp N2A airship was a guest. Today's airfield is used exclusively for civil purposes. The wings & wheels event was done annually here.
The airfield was then used for civilian purposes until 1933, [4] initially as a technical base for the beginning civilian air traffic, from 1927 it was mainly used for pilot training as part of the Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule to support Germany's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.