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Wunstorf Air Base

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ETNW

Elevation

187 ft

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Location

NI · Germany

Position

52.457°, 9.427° · 187 ft elev.

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Historic German military air base near Hanover.

Opened

1934

Location

Wunstorf, Germany

Wunstorf Air Base (ICAO: ETNW) is a German Air Force (Luftwaffe) installation located near the town of Wunstorf in Lower Saxony, Germany. It serves as one of the primary tactical airlift bases for the Bundeswehr, hosting transport aviation units equipped with the Airbus A400M aircraft. The base has a long military history dating back to World War I and has continuously evolved through the World War II era and the Cold War period. Today it functions exclusively as a military facility with no scheduled commercial passenger operations.

Getting to & from

The base is accessible by road from Wunstorf, which is served by regional rail connections to Hanover.

Notable facts

›Home to Lufttransportgeschwader 62 (LTG 62), a major German Air Force transport wing.
›Operates the Airbus A400M tactical transport aircraft for the Bundeswehr.
›The airfield has roots dating back to World War I-era military aviation.
›Used for humanitarian and military airlift missions, including operations in Mali and Afghanistan.
›No IATA code is assigned as it handles no commercial passenger traffic.

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Wunstorf Air Base is a German Air Force military airfield, located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south-southwest of Neustadt am Rübenberge and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north-northwest of Wunstorf in Lower Saxony, Germany. Wunstorf Air Base is the home to Air Transport Wing 62, a unit operating all German Airbus A400M Atlas.

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