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Coordinates
N495636 E0063340
(WGS84)
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Elevation
1228 ft
Federal state
Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Region
Eifel
Location indicator
DBBI, EDAB, EDRB
Germany during the Cold War
The history of the Cold War airfields: Bitburg
During the Cold War
Use
US Air Force base.
Units
1971: 36th TFW: 22nd TFS (F-4D), 525th TFS (F-4E), 53rd TFS (F-4D), 22nd TFS (F-4D)
1975: 36th TFW: 22nd, 53rd, 525th TFS (F-4E)
1980: 36th TFW: 22nd, 53rd, 525th TFS (F-15A/B/C/D)
1985: 36th TFW: 22nd TFS, 53rd TFS, 525th TFS (F-15C/D)
1990: 36th TFW: 22nd TFS, 53rd TFS, 525th TFS (F-15C/D)
In the 1950s
Situation
Bitburg Airfield on a map from 1959
Overview
Bitburg Air Base on a map from 1953.
In the 1960s
Situation
Bitburg Airfield on a map from 1963
In the 1970s
Situation
Bitburg Air Base on a map of the US Department of Defense from 1972
- (ONC E-2 (1972), Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin /PCL MC/)
In the 1980s and early 1990s
Overview
Bitburg in 1984
Runways
Data for the year 1990:
06/24: 2506 m x 45 m Asphalt
Radio beacons
Data for the year 1990:
ILS
24: 111.9 "IBIT"
TACAN: CH56 "BIT", at field
Telephone
DSN 453-7xxx (1990)
Today
Use
General aviation.
Overview
Aerial view from June 2015
Sources
http://www.lvermgeo.rlp.de/
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Geoportal Rheinland-Pfalz
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