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Erlangen Army Airfield
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Erlangen Airfield

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Erlangen Airfield, 1954 (1st Inf Div Photo Collection, USAHEC)
 

Bldg #4037 (Ops?), Ferris Barracks, Erlangen Airfield (date & photographer unknown)
Can anyone provide information on what Bldg #4037 was used for? Was it part of airfield
operations or not?
 

Hangar (1), Bldg #4037 (2), with maintenance/access apron (3) & taxiway (4) (Bill Oakley)
 

View of hangar (1) and Bldg #4037 (2) from the former taxiway (3), circa 1981 (Max Vejo Cay)
History
 

Dan standing next to the airfield sign (Bldg #4037?) (Daniel McCarthy)
 
1963
(Source: Daniel McCarthy)
I was stationed at Erlangen AAF, 1963 to 1965.

I remember one day a Mohawk crashed on takeoff at Furth.

If you recall, the Mohawk was used to look over the border. This plane had ejection seats and was basically uncontrollable, because of its high-power, below VMC. Let me simplify that: the Mohawks rudders were too small to overcome that torque produced by the good engine if one engine should fail.

So, the morning of the accident, on takeoff, one engine quit, the plane rolled over, the pilot ejected into the ground.

Right behind where Hitler had his rabble rousing displays, there was a small airport and his runaway was made of marble. One day I walked on it and it was very slippery as I recall. Hanna Reisch, the famous German pilot, would fly there in a Fiesler Storch plane and pick up Hitler after the show.
 
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