Neuburg Open House

Posted in 2016

... A lot has happened since then, amongst others the Jagdgeschwader 74 has been renamed into „Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74“ (Tactical Air Wing 74) in October 2013, the previous two Squadrons „Zapatas“ ...

Luftwaffe Phantom Pharewell Photo Phlight

Posted in Air-Air

The months of June and July 2013 saw the final operations of German F-4F Phantoms. With Jagdgeschwader 71 "R" at Wittmund officially putting Luftwaffe Phantom operations to an end and handing over the QR ...

WTD61 F-4F Phlyout

Posted in Air Forces

After the show of Jagdgeschwader 71 (JG71) at Wittmund to honour the end of the F-4F Phantom II service for the Luftwaffe at the end of June 2013, the two remaining Phantoms of WTD61 soldiered on for ...

JG74 F-4F Phlyout

Posted in Air Forces

"The Farewell to a Legend", with these words the wing commander of Jagdgeschwader 74, Andreas Pfeiffer, opened its speech due to the decommissioning of the, meanwhile legendary, F-4F Phantom II. Nearl ...

JG74 Neuburg

Posted in Air Forces

The following pages will tell about major milestones, interesting happenings or just show some nice photos of the flying activity at NATO's smallest airfield, the airfield Neuburg/Zell, home of the Jagdgeschwade ...

Eurofighter for JG74

Posted in Air Forces

On July 25th, 2006 the first Eurofighter Typhoons touched down at the airbase Neuburg, home of the Jagdgeschwader (Fighter Wing) 74. At 11h27 lcl. the smoketrails of two F-4F became visible, announcing ...

Phantoms and Tornados in the dark

Posted in Air Forces

... Tornados is also valid for the F-4F Phantoms at Neuburg, mainting the capability to fulfill their mission during day and night, especially due to the fact that the Jagdgeschwader (Fighter Squadron) 7 ...

MiGs against Hornets

Posted in Air Forces

At the end of August I had the possibility to spent a day with the Jagdgeschwader (fighter squadron) 73 at their homebase Laage near Rostock. Only one month later the first 5 MiGs were transferred to ...