Rheine-Bentlage Air Base
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The Rheine- Bentlage until 2012 Army Airfield is a military airbase of the Luftwaffe in the North Rhine -Westphalian Rheine, district Bentlage.
On the site, the Theodor- Blank -Kaserne is the decades the medium transport helicopter regiment 15 of the German Army -based. This gave its aircraft on January 1, 2013, the Air Force and was dissolved on 30 June 2013.
The operations presented in 2013 the Diepholzer weapon system support center 2 ( WaSysUstgZ 2) ensure that a field office, the Air Force Maintenance Group 25 maintains in Rheine - Bentlage. The operational flight operations was set in late 2013, it found since the beginning of 2014 in case of need only technical check flights instead.
History
In 1939 was begun in Bentlage with the construction of an air force base, which you completed it in 1940. During the Second World War, many day and night missions were flown from here. One of the main user was from December 1940 to March 1944 the III. Group of night-fighter squadron 1 from May Until September 1942, the group II of the Night Fighter Squadron 4 was also stationed here.
After a brief re-use of the designated by the Allies as Airfield B.108 square after its conquest in the spring of 1945 we took the first military airfield out of operation.
A few years after the founding of the Bundeswehr in 1955 the decision was taken to resume flight operations. 1960, the corresponding construction work was initiated and part of the Army Aviation Corps stationed on the Rheine- Bentlage. In addition, in the barracks, the transport battalion 170 was stationed. The transport battalion had 170 trucks of 10t class with flatbed (MAN 22.240DF ) and Tank ( Faun L 908 ATW, STW 15.000l ).
Equipment
The Transport Helicopter Regiment 15 had 5 easy connection helicopter BO 105 VBH and 37 medium transport helicopter CH- 53G and GS. The GE version is expected for the end of 2009. Since the end of 2011 no BO 105 more available in stock. Previously also Alouette II and Sikorsky S -58 were in use. A Sikorsky S -58 stood as a monument at the entrance of the barracks.
The airfield has a small, about 500 meters long paved runway, and runway in a west-east orientation.
By 2017, some changes in the value of approximately 100 million euros to be held on the airfield and in the 40- year-old site. For example, the barracks should be modernized, renewed the fence and built more hangars and expanded existing ones, so that upcoming work on the CH -53 in the open air would no longer need to partially take place. However, it was announced in October 2011 that the airfield of the Bundeswehr is to be abandoned.