 Aerial Photo of Erding Air Base - Germany, 2004  North American F-86D-45-NA Sabre Serial 52-3900 of the 440th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Erding Air Base, 1956 Edring Air Base is a German Air Force airfield near Munich. During the Cold War, it was a United States Air Force facility, used as an Air Depot, Air Base and an Air Station. Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern). ...
Combatants Communists: Warsaw Pact, Soviet Union and its allied Anti-communists: Nato, United States and its allied Peoples Republic of China and its allied Casualties 70 millions civilians The Cold War (Russian: Ð¥Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð´Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð’Ð¾Ð¹Ð½Ð° Kholodnaya Voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between...
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerospace branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. ...
During World War II Erding was a Luftwaffe Airfield This article is becoming very long. ...
The Deutsche Luftwaffe or (German: air force, literally Air Arm or Air Weapon, IPA: [luftvafÉ™]) is the commonly used term for the German air force. ...
USAF Units stationed at Erding were:
- 1948-1954: 7485th Air Depot Wing
- 1956-1960: 440th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
- 1970-1971: 52nd Tactical Fighter Group
Originally developed as an Air Depot in the early postwar years, the mission of the 7485th Air Depot Wing provided depot-level maintenance of USAFE and NATO fighters. With the creation of NATO in response to Cold War tensions in Europe, USAFE wanted its major air bases in West Germany moved west of the Rhein River to provide greater air defense warning time. NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation[1] (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ...
Combatants Communists: Warsaw Pact, Soviet Union and its allied Anti-communists: Nato, United States and its allied Peoples Republic of China and its allied Casualties 70 millions civilians The Cold War (Russian: Ð¥Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð´Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð’Ð¾Ð¹Ð½Ð° Kholodnaya Voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between...
With the opening of Châteauroux-Déols Air Base, France in 1953, the mission of Erding Air Depot was transferred and the Air Depot Wing was deactivated. Renamed Erding Air Base, it became an air defense facility in 1956 with the assignment of the F-86D equipped 440th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, a detachment of the 86th Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Landstuhl Air Base until the arrival of the F-102 in Europe and budget cutbacks in 1960 forced it's closure. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The first proposals for the North American Aviation F-86 Sabre were made in 1944, but construction was not begun until after World War II. Many elements of German jet design were implemented in the Sabre, after the American liberation troops captured a number of working Messerschmitt Me 262 experimental...
Boeing C-17A Lot XII Globemaster III Serial 00-0172 Spirit of the Cascades at the Ramstein cargo terminal. ...
The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger fighter aircraft was part of the backbone of the United States air defenses in the late 1950s. ...
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Erding was turned over to the German Air Force as a front line facility where it hosted various F-104, Tornado and other fighter squadrons.
In 1966 with France withdrawing from NATO it left a gap in the air defense network of Europe. Operation Creek Ale filled that gap by rotating F-102 interceptors from various squadrons of the 86th Air Division based at Ramstein. Squadrons from Soesterberg, Zaragosa, Hahn, Bitburg and Ramstein rotated to Erding for air defense alert. With the deactivation of the 86th AD in 1970, the 52d Fighter Group was formed at Erding with some of the F-102's on a permanent basis. In 1971 the F-102s were withdrawn from Europe and the 52d FG was deactivated. 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation[1] (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ...
The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger fighter aircraft was part of the backbone of the United States air defenses in the late 1950s. ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
Relegated to Air Station status, Erding hosted TDY units of CONUS based USAF aircraft though the 1980s for short-term deployments as part of the annual Reforger exercises.
It remains an active German Air Force Base today.
See also
Map Of USAF bases in Occupied Germany - 1947 Map Of USAF bases in West Germany during the Cold War - 1975 F-80B 49-1007 of the 36th Fighter Wing, Fürstenfeldbruck AB - 1950. ...
References - Endicott, Judy G., USAF Active Flying, Space, and Missile Squadrons as of 1 October 1995. Office of Air Force History
- Maurer Maurer, Air Force Combat Units Of World War II, Office of Air Force History, 1983
- Ravenstein, Charles A., Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947-1977, Office of Air Force History, 1984
- USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present [1]
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