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Ramstein Air Base (IATA: RMS, ICAO: ETAR) is a United States Air Force installation located in Rhineland-Palatinate, southwestern Germany.It serves as the headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) and NATO Allied Air Command (AIRCOM).
Hahn Air Base Hunsrück: closed 1993 Hammonds Barracks Mannheim: closed 2010 Hardt Kaserne Schwäbisch Gmünd: closed 1991 Harris Barracks Coburg: closed 1991 Harvey Barracks Kitzingen: closed 2007 Hawkins Barracks Oberammergau: transferred to Bundeswehr: 1975 formerly an Army Intelligence center; was transferred to Bundeswehr as an ...
Hahn Air Base was a United States Air Force (USAF) installation near Lautzenhausen in Germany for over forty years. [1] The major unit was the 50th Tactical Fighter Wing of the USAF during most of the years it was active.
With the creation of NATO in response to Cold War tensions in Europe, USAFE wanted its vulnerable fighter units in West Germany moved west of the Rhein River to provide greater air defense warning time. France agreed to air base sites within its zone of occupation in the Rheinland-Palatinate. Spangdahlem base was constructed between 1951 and ...
The shift of USAF bases to locations west of the Rhine River meant that permanent active flying organizations were not assigned to Kaufbeuren, and it was used as a communications station under the 7320th Air Force Wing. In 1955, the 7330th Flying Training Wing was established on the base to train German pilots for the reconstituted German Air ...
Wunstorf Air Base is a German Air Force military airfield (air base), located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south-southwest of Neustadt am Rübenberge and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north-northwest of Wunstorf in Lower Saxony, Germany. Wunstorf Air Base is the home to Air Transport Wing 62 (Lufttransportgeschwader 62), a unit operating all German Airbus ...
When it was the only maintenance base for Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters in Europe, Coleman Airfield had more take-offs and landings than any other US Army airfield in Germany. The Coleman Aero Club (CAC) was the only U.S. military non-profit flying organization in Europe.
NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen is located in the Federal Republic of Germany, near the village of Teveren and six kilometers west of the town of Geilenkirchen. The base is known to the local population as ‘Flugplatz Teveren’ and has an area of 620 hectares (1,500 acres). Part of the base perimeter is adjacent to the German-Dutch border.