Rangsdorf
In the spring of 1935, the Reich's Ministry of Aviation (RLM) decided on Rangsdorf as the site for an airfield and a platform for seaplanes (on the shores of the Rangsdorfer See).
The Bücker-Flugzeugbau GmbH Company moved into Rangsdorf in1935 to produce Bü 131 'Jungmann' and Bü 133 'Jungmeister' models. The Reichsschule für Motorflug (Reich's Motorized Flight School) was also based there from 1936 on. The Bücker factory ceased its operations on April 20, 1945. The site was captured by the Red Army without resistance two days later.
Soviet forces continued to use Rangsdorf as both a maintenance and operational base.
The base was also used as storage for all the machines destroyed in accidents or considered obsolete. The wrecks and pieces of various aircraft and helicopters were shipped out and used as targets on the firing ranges of East Germany!
Nearly 200 aircraft, helicopter and missiles were destroyed on the site starting in 1991. The last elements of forces left in 1994.
The Bücker-Flugzeugbau GmbH Company moved into Rangsdorf in1935 to produce Bü 131 'Jungmann' and Bü 133 'Jungmeister' models. The Reichsschule für Motorflug (Reich's Motorized Flight School) was also based there from 1936 on. The Bücker factory ceased its operations on April 20, 1945. The site was captured by the Red Army without resistance two days later.
Soviet forces continued to use Rangsdorf as both a maintenance and operational base.
The base was also used as storage for all the machines destroyed in accidents or considered obsolete. The wrecks and pieces of various aircraft and helicopters were shipped out and used as targets on the firing ranges of East Germany!
Nearly 200 aircraft, helicopter and missiles were destroyed on the site starting in 1991. The last elements of forces left in 1994.
