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Coordinates
N491829 E0103820
(WGS84)
Google Maps
Elevation
1532 ft
Federal state
Bayern (Bavaria)
Location indicator
EDEB (-1995), ETEB (1995)
Germany during the Cold War
The history of the Cold War airfields: Ansbach
During World War II
Use
Luftwaffe air base.
Situation
Ansbach Air Base (Fliegerhorst) in World War II on a US map from 1944
Source: McMaster University Library Digital Archive, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 CC BY-NC 2.5 CA
During the Cold War
Use
US Army airfield.
In the 1970s
Situation
Ansbach Army Airfield on a map of the US Department of Defense from 1972
Source: ONC E-2 (1972), Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Overview
Ansbach Army Airfield on a US satellite image from Sunday 28 December 1975
- The landscape is snow-covered and the airfield is hardly recognizable.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Runways
Data for the year 1971:
08/26: 698 m x 20 m
In the 1980s and early 1990s
Overview
Ansbach heliport in 1984
Source: US DoD
Radio beacons
Data for the year 1990:
NDB
: 452 "ANS", am Platz
Units
Today
Use
US Army Heliport.
Overview
Aerial image (2017)
Source: Datenquelle: Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung www.geodaten.bayern.de, License: Creative Commons Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschland (CC BY 3.0 DE)
Sources
https://geoportal.bayern.de/
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Geoportal Bayern
Bibliography
Ries, Karl; Dierich, Wolfgang: "Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe" Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1993 -
Alliierte Planskizze
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