Grossenhain airfield ( German: Großenhain ), ( ICAO : EDAK ) - military airfield located near the city of the same name Grossenhain in Saxony , Germany .
| Grossenhain | ||||||||||
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 Type KDP aerodrome | ||||||||||
| IATA : no - ICAO : EDAK | ||||||||||
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| Type of | military | |||||||||
| A country | Germany | |||||||||
| Location | Saxony (land) | |||||||||
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| NUM height | +67 m | |||||||||
| Timezone | UTC + 2 | |||||||||
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History
The airfield is one of the oldest operating German airfields. Since 1911, Saxon officers for the German Imperial Air Force trained at the airport. Pilots for the First World War were also trained here. Among the well-known graduates of the school, aces of the First World War, based at this airfield were Manfred von Richthofen , Rudolf Bertold , Walter Blume , Julius Bookler , Franz Büchner , Karl Menckhoff and many others. In total, up to 1918, about 60,000 people were trained here.
In the period from 1919 to 1945 at the airport were based:
| Start | Ending | Unit [1] |
|---|---|---|
| March 1935 | March 1945 | Aufkl.Gr. 323 (Aufklärungsgruppe 323) |
| April 1936 | September 1937 | Aufkl.Gr. 123 |
| October 1937 | October 1938 | Aufkl.Gr. 23 |
| November 1938 | August 1939 | Aufkl.Gr. eleven |
| November 1944 | February 1945 | II./ZG 76 (II. Gruppe des Zerstörergeschwaders 76) |
| November 1944 | March 1945 | 14./KG 3 (14. Staffel des Kampfgeschwaders 3) |
| February 1945 | March 1945 | Stab, II./SG 2 (Stab und II. Gruppe des Schlachtgeschwaders 2) |
| February 1945 | April 1945 | III./JG 54 (III. Gruppe des Jagdgeschwaders 54) |
| April 1945 | April 1945 | I., III./JG 27 |
On May 2, 1945, the airfield was occupied by Soviet troops and on May 9 , it housed the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Division , commanded three times by Hero of the Soviet Union A.I. Pokryshkin .
After the war, a new airfield infrastructure was built. The runway has been lengthened. At the airport in the period from 1945 to 1993 were based:
| Start | Ending | Parts and connections | Note |
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| May 1945 | May 1945 | 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Division 322nd Fighter Aviation Division | division management and headquarters |
| May 1945 | May 1945 | 482nd Fighter Aviation Regiment | La 5 |
| May 1945 | May 1945 | 2nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment 937th Fighter Aviation Regiment | La 7 |
| May 1945 | May 1945 | 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment 100th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment 104th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment | P-39 Airacobra |
| 1946 | 1949 | 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Division 78th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment | division management and headquarters, IL-10 |
| 1947 | 1948 | 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Division | division management and headquarters |
| 1948 | 1951 | 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division | division management and headquarters |
| 1949 | 1951 | 269th Fighter Aviation Division 168th Fighter Aviation Regiment | division management and headquarters, regiment on the Yak-9 |
| 1951 | 1993 | 105th Fighter Aviation Division 105th Fighter Bomber Aviation Division 105th Fighter Bomber Aviation Division | division management and headquarters, Yak-12 , An-2 , An-14 , MiG-9 |
| 1951 | 1955 | 559th Fighter Aviation Regiment | MiG-15 |
| 1951 | 1989 | 497th Fighter Aviation Regiment 497th Fighter Bomber Aviation Regiment 497th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bomber 497th Bomber Aviation Regiment | MiG-15 , MiG-17 , Su-17 , Su-24 |
| 1989 | 1993 | 296th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bomber | MiG-27 |
After the collapse of the GDR in 1990 and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Germany, the transformation of the airfield began for further civilian use. Since May 1993, the airfield became a civilian.
Incidents
- On May 27, 1973, a take-off was carried out with the aim of hijacking a Su-7BM aircraft by an aviation technician, Lieutenant Vronsky . Having the minimum piloting skills obtained on the simulator, Vronsky performed the entire flight in afterburner operation of the engine and did not remove the landing gear after takeoff. After crossing the German border, Vronsky catapulted. The plane crashed into the forest near the city of Braunschweig. The wreckage of the aircraft was returned to the Soviet side, and Lieutenant Vronsky was granted political asylum.
Notes
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , S. 240-242 , abgerufen am 16. September 2014
Literature
- Franz Spur, Jens Krüger: Geschichte Flugplatz Großenhain Stadtverwaltung Großenhain, 2. überarbeitete Auflage 2001
- Hannes Täger, Dietrich Heerde, Hans-Jürgen Franke, Michael Ruscher: Flugplatz Großenhain - Historischer Abriss Meißner Tageblatt Verlags GmbH, Herausgeber Polo Palmen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-929705-12-6
- Jürgen Zapf: Flugplätze der Luftwaffe 1934-1945 - und was davon übrig blieb. Band 2: Sachsen. VDM , Zweibrücken 2001, ISBN 3-925480-62-5
- Stefan Büttner: Rote Plätze - Russische Militärflugplätze Deutschland 1945-1994 , AeroLit, Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4