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The German Army Aviation Corps [1] (German: Heeresfliegertruppe) is a special unit within the German Armed Forces . The German Army Aviation Corps is a branch of the German Army (Heer), containing all its helicopter units. The German Air Force and the German Navy both also have their own helicopter units.
On 7 November 1956, Colonel Horst Pape became the first head of Department German Army Aviation Corps within the General Staff, after having been responsible since 1954 for the planning and setting up of the German Army Aviation Corps. On 7 January 1957, the German Army Aviation Corps took over Mendig Air Base air base from the French Armed Forces.
The School of Army Aviation was founded on 1 July 1959 and based first at Mendig before being transferred on 12 January 1960 to its current location at Bückeburg Air Base, utilising the facilities of RAF Bückeburg, constructed by the Royal Air Force in 1946 and closed in the mid-1950s.
Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 25 (German: Mittleres Transporthubschrauberregiment 25) was a regiment in the German Army, part of the German Army Aviation Corps. It was based at Kurt Georg Kiesinger Barracks on Laupheim Air Base in the German state of Baden Württemberg, Southern Germany. The regiment was founded in 1971 and disbanded on ...
Pages in category "German army aviation" ... History of the German Army Aviation Corps; L. Laupheim Air Base; Luftschiffer; M. Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 25; N.
Helicopter of the German Army Aviation Corps in Northern Iraq in 1991. After 1990, the Heer absorbed the Nationale Volksarmee, the armed forces of East Germany. The former East German forces were initially controlled by the Bundeswehr Command East under the command of Lieutenant General Jörg Schönbohm and disbanded on 30 June 1991. [9]
Since 1960 various units of the German Army Aviation Corps have been stationed at Rheine Air Base. Initially, these units flew Sikorsky H-34 helicopters, which were used extensively during relief operations following the disastrous North Sea flood of 1962. Another type of helicopter stationed at Rheine-Bentlage was the Alouette II.
11 German Army Aviation Corps. Toggle German Army Aviation Corps subsection. 11.1 Command systems. 11.2 Helicopters. 11.3 Aircraft weapons. 12 Future equipment.