Luftwaffe airfield opened by Adolf Hitler in 1935.[1]
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Royal Air Force Gatow, or more commonly RAF Gatow, was a British Royal Air Force station (military airbase) in the district of Gatow in south-western Berlin, west of the Havel river, in the borough of Spandau. It was the home for the only known operational use of flying boats in central Europe, and was later used for photographic reconnaissance missions by de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunks over East Germany. 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 Federal Republic of Germany. This part of the former airfield has since 2003 been part of the district of Berlin-Kladow.
^Schultz, Sigrid (2 November 1935). "Germany Opens School to Train Flyers for War". Chicago Tribune.
Royal Air Force Gatow, or more commonly RAFGatow, was a British Royal Air Force station (military airbase) in the district of Gatow in south-western Berlin...
Luftkriegsschule II, and then by the Royal Air Force and Army Air Corps as RAFGatow. RAFGatow has the unlikely distinction of having been home during the Berlin...
British European Airways (BEA) Vickers VC.1B Viking airliner crashed near RAFGatow air base, after being struck by a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter...
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1923 and closed in 2008. RAFGatow (IATA: GWW, ICAO: EDBG), the former Royal Air Force military airbase in the district of Gatow in south-western Berlin...
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South Africa, conducted their airlift known as "Operation Plainfare". RAFGatow was modernised with a 2,000 yards (1,800 m) long concrete runway, using...
2021. Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow. [1] Tornado – Der erste Protoyp jetzt in Gatow, October 2012 (German). Retrieved 5 October 2014...
Airways Vickers Viking 1B airliner near RAFGatow airfield, killing all aboard both aircraft. Later dubbed the Gatow air disaster, this event exacerbated...
2848 Field Squadron was the first RAF unit to arrive in West Berlin in 1945 to secure Luftwaffe Flugplatz Gatow. King George VI became Air Commodore-in-Chief...
ground to powder and dispersed in the North Sea or buried at the former RAFGatow airbase, with the exception of a single set of keys now exhibited in the...
vanished from the modern RAF fleet. Chipmunk WG486 flew reconnaissance missions over East Germany, as part of the RAFGatow Station Flight, in co-operation...
und Technik, an East German youth military training organization, at RAFGatow. His aircraft, registration DDR-WOH, was dismantled and returned to the...
Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow at former RAFGatow, Berlin, Germany. Luftwaffe Canberra B.2 99+36, (former RAF WK130) is on display at the Auto...
flight from Northolt via Hamburg to Berlin collided during its approach to RAFGatow head-on with a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter, which was performing...
jet fighter. Reconnaissance missions from RAFGatow by Chipmunks (article includes photos). The ex-RAFGatow Chipmunk in the Battle of Britain Memorial...
included RAF Signals Command, which was later reduced to group status and incorporated into RAF Strike Command. Nos 26 and No. 60 Group RAF were established...
that day's scheduled flight from RAF Northolt via Hamburg to RAFGatow in Berlin collided during its approach to RAFGatow with a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev...
Force Germany, commonly known as RAF Germany, and abbreviated RAFG, is a former command of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and part of British Forces Germany...
defected to East Germany in July 1963. Patchett was an intercept operator at RAFGatow in West Berlin, and as a consequence he had a comprehensive knowledge...
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This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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