The former Royal Air Force Station Geilenkirchen, more commonly known as RAF Geilenkirchen, was a Royal Air Force military airbase in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany, built by the British who used the facility mainly as a base for RAF fighter squadrons from May 1953 until 21 January 1968.
The RAF handed over the station to German Luftwaffe in March 1968. The Germans used the base as home for a Surface-to-Surface Missile Wing equipped...
more
The former Royal Air Force Station Geilenkirchen, more commonly known as RAF Geilenkirchen, was a Royal Air Force military airbase in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany, built by the British who used the facility mainly as a base for RAF fighter squadrons from May 1953 until 21 January 1968.
The RAF handed over the station to German Luftwaffe in March 1968. The Germans used the base as home for a Surface-to-Surface Missile Wing equipped with Pershing missiles with support from the United States Army.
In 1980, the base became NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, to house the main operating base for NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force (AWACS). This is a multinational organisation operating 17 NATO Boeing E-3A Sentry aircraft.
less
