Bautzen Airbase

Usage until 1945

Luftwaffe landing ground

Usage during the Cold War

East german airbase.

Current usage

General aviation.

Runways

Data for the year 1990:

Data for the year 1990:

Radio

The call sign of the airfield was HARTMANN.

Telephone

Sondernetz/Stabsnetz S1 9823, call sign "Arzneimittel" und "Erlenholz" in 1990.

Maps

Maps from a secret east german document.

Location of airfield with radio beacons and airways.		Departure routes for take-off directions 254° and 074° to airway A4
Approach for main landing direction 254°		Approach for secondary landing direction 074°
Airfield map

Standard Training Routes

For the year 1989:

772 Bautzen, Bad Schandau, Freiberg, Riesa, Kamenz, Bautzen
Altitude: 4250 bis 4900 m
Climb: Freiberg
Descend: Kamenz
Interception leg: Freiberg, Kamenz
(Flights only in coordination with VHZ)

773 Bautzen, Bad Schandau, Wolkenstein, right turn, Kamenz, Bautzen
Altitude: 5500 m
Climb: Traverse Glashütte
Descend: Kamenz
Interception leg: Traverse Glashütte, Kamenz

774 Bautzen, Spreefurt, Hohnstein, Rumburk, Bautzen
Altitude: 100 bis 900 m
Climb: Spreefurt
Descent: Rumburk
Interception leg: Spreefurt, Hohnstein

775 Bautzen, Weissenberg, firing range Neudorf, Bautzen
Altitude: 100 bis 1200 m
Climb: Weissenberg
Descend: Bautzen FMP

Map of standard training routes (516 KB)

East german airforce units at Bautzen in 1990:
- Offiziershochschule der LSK/LV für Militärflieger "Otto Lilienthal" (OHS MF, Postfach 35881)
- Nachr.- u. Flugsich.werkst. u. Lager (OHS MF NFWL, Postfach 35898)
- Fliegerausbildungsgeschwader 25 "Leander Ratz" (FAG-25, PF 35838) ausgerüstet mit L-39ZO
- Fliegertechnisches Bataillon 25 (FTB-25, PF 56048)
- Nachrichten- und Flugsicherungsbataillon 25 (NFB-25, PF 78339)
- NFB-25 Radarstellung (PF 35863)
- Waffenwerkstatt und -lager 14 (WWL-14, PF 65916)

The following picture was provided by csc. Thanks a lot!

Relicts of the FAG-25 storage area at Kubschuetz (2007)

Einheiten und Objekte der NVA
Ein eBook von mil-airfields.de

The airfield is part of the scenery gdr_mil7 from Michael Spengler in a state around 1990.

Before landing

DDR-Luftwaffe
History of FAG-25
http://home.snafu.de/veith/FAG-25.htm

USMLM Unit History 1972
Notice about deployment of L-29 from Bautzen to Demmin-Tutow for 45 days in march 1972
http://www.history.hqusareur.army.mil/uslmannual.htm

USMLM Unit History 1978
Notice about reequipment from L-29 to L-39; Notice and picture of the precision approach radar at Bautzen (modified HAY POLE)
http://www.history.hqusareur.army.mil/uslmannual.htm

USMLM Unit History 1979
Notice about L-39 with unguided rockets.
http://www.history.hqusareur.army.mil/uslmannual.htm

USMLM Unit History 1982
Sighting of a unknown RSBN system at Bautzen at the 10 july 1982 (with two pictures)
http://www.history.hqusareur.army.mil/uslmannual.htm

Sachsenbunker
http://www.sachsenschiene.net/bunker/flp/flp_07.htm

Zapf, Jürgen:
'Flugplätze der Luftwaffe 1934-1945 - und was davon übrig blieb / Sachsen'
VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2002
4 pages description and map

'Fliegerrevue 1/1983'
This east german publication shows a picture with some approach maps of Bautzen in the background. This is remarkable, as such information was usually kept secret. The publication was possibly unintentionally.

Freundt, Lutz:
'Sowjetische Fliegerkräfte in Deutschland 1945-1994, Band 4'
Edition Freundt Eigenverlag, Diepholz 2000
Short notice about soviet flying units at Bautzen.

Bußmann, Kleest, Freundt:
'"11-80, katapultieren Sie!"'
AeroLit - Verlag und Medienvertrieb, Berlin, 2004
Short descriptions about aircraft accidents, including some at Bautzen.

Banach, Bußmann, Girke, Meißner, Willisch, Freundt:
'MiG, Mi, Su & Co.'
AeroLit - Verlag und Medienvertrieb, Berlin, 2002
Some pictures from Bautzen airbase.

Billig, Detlef; Meyer, Manfred:
'Flugzeuge der DDR, II. Band bis 1972'
TOM Modellbau, Friedland, 2002
Several pictures of L-29 at Bautzen

Billig, Detlef; Meyer, Manfred:
'Flugzeuge der DDR, III. Band bis 1990'
TOM Modellbau, Friedland, 2003
Picture of a L-39 at the flightline at Bautzen

Billig, Detlef; Meyer, Manfred:
'Flugzeuge der DDR, IV. Band'
TOM Modellbau, Friedland, 2004
Pictures of L-29 and L-39; one picture shows both types at the flightline.