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Wittmundhafen Air Base is a Luftwaffe fighter station in Lower Saxony, home to Tactical Air Force Wing 71 and its Eurofighter Typhoons. Its single very long hard runway, full ILS and active military radar service make it a distinctive, if operationally restricted, field for a simulator pilot to study.
Wittmundhafen Air Base (ICAO: ETNT), known in German as Fliegerhorst Wittmundhafen, is a German Air Force installation near the town of Wittmund in Lower Saxony. It is the home base of Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 71, which flies the Eurofighter Typhoon, and the field also serves as a storage site for the Luftwaffe's retired F-4F Phantom II fleet. For a virtual pilot the base is notable for its single, exceptionally long runway and its history as a front-line fast-jet station.
The base lies close to the town of Wittmund on the North Sea coastal plain of Lower Saxony, at coordinates 53.5479N, 7.6674E. As an active military fighter base it sits within controlled airspace associated with German air defence operations, with air traffic services provided by Bremen Area Control and dedicated Wittmund Radar and Wittmund Tower units.
Wittmundhafen has a single physical runway, 08/26, measuring 7,963 feet with a hard surface. It is lit along its full length, and runway 26 is equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches.
Air traffic services are provided by Bremen Area Control on 124.075 MHz. Wittmund Radar operates on 25.87 MHz, 36.89 MHz and 123.3 MHz, and Wittmund Tower can be reached on 118.725 MHz. Runway 26 is served by an ILS.
Wittmundhafen originated as a naval airship port and was used as a Luftwaffe Einsatzhafen (operational airfield) during the Second World War, with a long east-west runway visible on airfield surveys from the early 1950s. The present-day military airbase was established in 1963. From its opening the base operated the F-104G Starfighter, and from May 1974 it converted to the F-4F Phantom II, which remained in service until its retirement on 29 June 2013. During the 1970s and into the mid-to-late 1980s the resident wing also flew a small number of Dornier Do 28D light aircraft. Following the Phantom's retirement, the squadron transitioned to the Eurofighter Typhoon during 2013. Retired F-86 and F-104 airframes are displayed at the base as gate guardians.
Wittmundhafen remains an active Luftwaffe fighter base, home to Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 71 and its Eurofighter Typhoons. The base also stores the German Air Force's former fleet of retired F-4F Phantom II aircraft. As a military installation, access is restricted to service traffic and prior permission would be required for any civilian movement.
