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The Command Bunker

Flugplatz Oranienburg, was built between 1936 and 1939 west of Oranienburg and north of Berlin in Brandenburg Germany.
Founder of the airfield was Ernst Heinkel, who intended to start a new aircraft factory at the location. Originally the aircraft factory was intended only for serial construction of the new He111 airliner for German airline Lufthansa. The Luftwaffe recognised its potential as a bomber however, and ordered a millitary version of which the first was delivered on 4 May 1937.
A notable 'first' was developed at Oranienburg: the first practical jet engine of the world was developed and built here. The jet engine was then successfully used to power the He178 jet.for combat aircraft such as Heinkel He 111, and the Junkers Ju 88 for the Luftwaffe.
During World War II Oranienburg was solely used as an aircraft factory airfield. It was bombed during an air raid of 260 USAAF B-17 bombers on 18 April 1944. They returned on 10 April 1945 with 139 bombers, during which attack the airfield was completely destroyed.

The Red Army built a military airfield there for the largest of the Soviet helicopters based in Germany was certainly the Mil Mi-6 "Hook."
In the late 1980s, three different versions of this helicopter were operational within the units of the
Armeiskaya Aviatsiya based in the GDR.
They did most of the heavy transport by helicopter and a handful of them were modified into airborne command posts.
Now decommissioned and partially replaced in Russia by the Mi-26 "Halo,"
the Mi-6 was an old machine whose first flight dated back to 1957. The NATO designation "Hook"
was certainly appropriate as this heavy twin-engine helicopter could carry 9 tons of cargo under sling or 12 tons inside its cargo hold.
Twenty-six improved Mi-6A "Hook-A" were on strength with two of the four squadrons of the 239
"Belgorodskiy" OGVP (or Otdel'nyy Gvardeiskiy Vertoletnyy Polk - 'Belgorod' Separate Guards Helicopter Regiment)
at Oranienburg -The Russian troops pulled out in 1994 ,the two helicopter regiments were moved to Jefremov and Nowosibirsk, Russia. and since then most of the Soviet-made buildings have been torn down. Almost all of the tarmac has been removed, while a giant supermarket distribution center and solar panel field have moved on to the former airbase.


SAM missile position of the Oranienburg airfield ended in 1984 Code 288 3P ДH-1