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Fliegerhorst Wunstorf serves as home to the Air Transport Wing 62, the unit that operates the country’s fleet of Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft.

Lufttransportgeschwader 62 was founded on 1 October 1959. Originally based at Celle, it was redeployed to Cologne-Wahn in November of that year. In January 1960, the wing began to receive Nord Noratlas aircraft, two months later it flew its first mission when it was employed to fly supplies to Morocco in the wake of the Agadir earthquake.

From 1968 Lufttransportgeschwader 62 flew the C-106D Transall from Ahlhorn Air Transport Wing 62 was disbanded in September 1971 but was re-established in October 1978 when Pilot Training School "S" at Wunstorf was reclassified as Air Transport Wing 62. In the following years it participated in numerus humanitarian aid missions and provided logistic support to UNPROFOR in Africa, the Middle East and former Yugoslavia

In November 2004, plans by the Federal Ministry of Defence were released to replace the wing's Transall C-130s and Bell UH-1Ds, with Airbus A400M and NH Industries NH90. According to the original planning, the Airbus A400AM should have been brought into service within a few years. However, due to technical problems the first aircraft of the new type were expected to enter service not before November 2014.

In 2010 it was decided that the rotary part of the wing would be transferred to Helicopter Wing 64. Leaving Lufttransportgeschwader 62 only operating fixed-wing aircraft. The first aircraft Airbus A400M entered service on 19 December 2014 will the last Transall left Wunstorf in July 2015.

The 2018 edition of Tag der Bundeswehr, the major open doors event of the German armed forces, happened on 9th June 2018. One of the bigger events was organized at Fliegerhorst Wunstorf home off the Lufttransportgeschwader 62 , the unit that operates the country’s fleet of Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft.


Lufttransportgeschwader 62 will be the only wing to operate the new heavy lift transporter within the Luftwaffe. As many as fifty-eight A400M Atlas are to be based at from Wunstorf, this as the last eighteen A400M that were for sale will be taken on by the Luftwaffe.


The Fliegerhorst Wunstorf was opened back in 1934 by the “Wehrmacht” and was taken over by the Royal Air Force after WWII. First the airfield was used as the home base of a few British fighter squadrons, before it was used for the famous “Berliner Luftbrücke” between West Germany/BRD and West Berlin in 1948/49.


In March 1958 Fliegerhorst Wunstorf was returned to the Luftwaffe and used as a base for the transport fleet, first with the Noratlas and the C160 Transall. From October 1978 on the Air Base is used as home base for Lufttransportgeschwader 62.